Veiled Employment: Islamism and the Political Economy of Women’s Employment in Iran

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Veiled Employment Contemporary Issues in the Middle East Other titles from Contempor ary Issues in the Middle East Citizenship and the State in the Middle East: Approaches and Applications Nils A. Butenschon, Uri Davis, and M a nuel H assassia n, eds. Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East Suad Joseph, ed. In the Eye of the Storm: Women in Post-Revolutionary Iran M ahna z Afk h a mi a nd Erik a Friedl, eds. Iranian Cities: Formation and Development M asoud K heir abadi Islam, Arabs, and the Intelligent World of the Jinn A mir a El-Zein Labor Unions and Autocracy in Iran H abib L adjeva rdi The Second Message of Islam M a hmoud Moh a med Ta h a; Abdull a hi A hmed A n-Na’im, trans. Twenty Years of Islamic Revolution: Political and Social Transition in Iran since 1979 Eric Hooglund, ed. Women in Muslim Family Law, 2nd ed. John L. Esposito, with Nata na J. DeLong-Bas Women, the Family, and Divorce Laws in Islamic History A mir a El A zh a ry Sonbol, ed. Veiled Employment isl a mism a nd the political economy of women’s employment in ir a n Edited by roksana bahramitash & hadi salehi esfahani Syracuse University Press Veiled Copyright © 2011 by Syracuse University Press Syracuse, New York 13244-5290 All Rights Reserved First Edition 2011 11 12 13 14 15 16 6 5 4 3 2 1 ∞ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. For a listing of books published and distributed by Syracuse University Press, visit our Web site at SyracuseUniversityPress.syr.edu. ISBN: 978-0-8156-3213-9 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Veiled employment : Islamism and the political economy of women’s employment in Iran / edited by Roksana Bahramitash and Hadi Salehi Esfahani. — 1st ed. p. cm. — (Contemporary issues in the Middle East) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8156-3213-9 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Women—Employment—Iran—History. 2. Women—Employment—Iran— Political aspects. 3. Sexual division of labor—Iran. I. Bahramitash, Roksana, 1956– II. Esfahani, Hadi Salehi. HD6182.56.V45 2011 331.40955—dc22 2010051215 Manufactured in the United States of America ...