Women in Place

"Can women attend sports events held at stadiums? Under what conditions can men and women share public transportation? Why does the state have to provide for women's only facilities? By exploring how these and other questions have been debated and addressed in the past four decades, Shahrokni mobilizes rich ethnographic and archival research to track the ways political struggles produce social space in postrevolutionary Iran. This is a theoretically rigorous work that takes readers through Tehran to challenging analytical and ethical terrains."--Arang Keshavarzian, Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University "Shahrokni's beautifully detailed ethnographic analysis shows how the Iranian state has shifted from enforcing Islamic morality through prohibiting women from public spaces to a more liberal discourse of rights and protection that enforces morality by providing women with gender segregated spaces. This book is a significant contribution to our understanding of sociopolitical change in religious states and gender regimes."--Rachel Rinaldo, author of Mobilizing Piety: Islam and Feminism in Indonesia