Introduction

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Notes on Transliteration VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Main Intellectual Trends
6. Intellectuals and Society in Iran since 1953 17
7. The Trajectory of the 1953 Military Coup and the Course of Liberal Islam in Iran: A Sociological Analysis 31
8. Constructing and Deconstructing Othering: Polycentrism versus Westoxication in Iran 60
9. Part II: The Voices of the Less Visible
10. Insurmountable Hurdles to the Countering of Patriarchal Gender Discourse under a Clerical Oligarchy? Experiences of (Islamic) Feminists in the Islamic Republic of Iran (1979–2009) 89
11. Heirs of Modernity in Rural Iran 112
12. Part III: Social Change in the Mirror of Art
13. The Rebellious Man and the Courageous Woman: Social Criticism and Gender Relations in Iranian Film Production before and after the Islamic Revolution 131
14. Between Change and Persistence: Reżā Julāʾi’s Short Story Miti-Jenn as a Mirror of Social Developments in Iran 155
15. Note on Contributors 177
16. Index of Names and Places 179