Mother Persia: Women in Iran's History

Abstract

Chapter 1: What's to Admire About Iranian Women -- Chapter 2: Gender in the Language, the Folklore, the Landscape -- Chapter 3: The First Mothers of Iran -- Chapter 4: Women of Iran's Pre-Islamic Empires -- Chapter 5: Persian Women Under Arab Muslim Conquerors -- Chapter 6: Islam as a Cult of Love -- Chapter 7: A History of the Veil -- Chapter 8: Female Heroes of Medieval Persia -- Chapter 9: The Mothers of Modern Iran -- Chapter 10: Women of the Constitutional Revolution -- Chapter 11: The Movement for Girls' Education -- Chapter 12: Controlling the Raiders and Banning the Veil -- Chapter 13: Professional Women Redefine Good Work -- Chapter 14: Reformist Women Under the Pahlavi Shahs -- Chapter 15: Women in the Islamic Revolution -- Chapter 16: The Family Law Culture War -- Chapter 17: Sexuality in the Islamic Republic -- Chapter 18: Some Modern Heroes -- Chapter 19: Islam According to Women.