Iranian Women's One Million Signatures
by Khorasani, Noushin AhmadiFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-01-31
Publisher(s): Syracuse Univ Pr
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Author Biography
Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani is one of Iran's leading women's rights activists. She is a founding member of the One Million Signatures Campaign and Women's Cultural Center, editor e journals Second Sex, and Women's Quarterly, ell as founding editor of the websites, Feminist ol and Zanestan. She is a prolific writer, lator, film maker, and thinker.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. 1 |
| Preface | p. 5 |
| Why the One Million Signatures Campaign? | p. 11 |
| The Perils of Polygamy | p. 16 |
| Women and Men Under Polygamy | p. 19 |
| Answering the Critics | p. 30 |
| The One Million Signatures Movement: Toward a New Era in Iran | p. 35 |
| Without a Place: The Female Experience in Iran | p. 40 |
| Democracy from the Bottom Up | p. 42 |
| Face-to-Face Dialogue and Social Change | p. 46 |
| Feminism and Islam | p. 49 |
| Another New Generation: Men in the Campaign | p. 51 |
| Internal Challenges of the One Million Signatures Campaign | p. 53 |
| The Goal or the Journey? Means versus Ends | p. 55 |
| Lobbying versus Informing | p. 58 |
| Individualism versus Conformism | p. 61 |
| A Perfect but Limited Opportunity | p. 65 |
| Organization: Tight but Not Too Tight | p. 69 |
| The One Million Signatures Campaign and Other Movements | p. 73 |
| Interaction with Political Parties | p. 75 |
| Relations with Other Women's Movements | p. 77 |
| The Problem of the Transnationals | p. 80 |
| Epilogue | p. 83 |
| Postscript | |
| Ten Days that Shook Iran: The Women's Rights Movement and the 2009 Presidential Election | p. 87 |
| Appendices | |
| One Million Signatures Campaign Petition Demanding Changes to Laws That Discriminate Against Women | p. 101 |
| The Campaign Plan: About "One Million Signatures Demanding Changes to Discriminatory Laws" | p. 105 |
| The Effect of Laws on Women's Lives | p. 113 |
| Which Laws Are We Seeking to Change? | p. 129 |
| The Family Protection Act (1975) | p. 141 |
| One Million Signatures Campaign Timeline | p. 155 |
| Statement on the Occasion of the June 2009 Presidential Elections in Iran | p. 171 |
| Endnotes | p. 177 |
| Acknowledgements | p. 183 |
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