Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xvii
5. INTRODUCTION. Human Rights and Cultural Practice 1
6. CHAPTER ONE. A Genealogy of “Women’s Rights” in Iran 20
7. CHAPTER TWO. Producing States: Women’s Participation and the Dialogics of Rights 42
8. CHAPTER THREE. Qur’anic Meetings: “Doing the Cultural Work” 75
9. CHAPTER FOUR. Courting Rights: Rights Talk in Islamico-Civil Family Court 108
10. CHAPTER FIVE. Practice and Effect: Writing/Righting the Law 138
11. CHAPTER SIX. Human Rights: The Politics and Prose of Discursive Sites 166
12. CONCLUSION. “Women’s Rights” as Exhibition at the Brink of War 200
13. APPENDIX. The Iranian Marriage Contract 209
14. Notes 211
15. Glossary 227
16. Bibliography 231
17. Index 251