Author

Publication

2005-07-11 - University of California Press

Language

English

Word Count

69,500 words, Guess

Page Count

278 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2004012262
  • Goodreads75676
  • LibraryThing1301538

Classifications

  • LCC2004012262

Description

"Minoo Moallem challenges the mainstream stereotypical representation of Islam and Muslims as backward, fanatical, and premodern by showing how Islamic nationalism and fundamentalism are by-products of modernity. Writing with a deep personal and scholarly concern for recent Iranian history, Moallem refers to the gendered notions of brother and sister as keys to understanding the invention of the Islamic ummat as a modern fraternal community. Using magazines, novels, and films, she offers a feminist transnational analysis of contemporary Iranian culture that questions dominant binaries of modern and traditional, West and East, secular and religious, and civilized and barbaric."--Book cover.

First Sentence

In 2000, while on a research trip to Paris, I visited an Iranian friend.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Between Warrior Brother and Veiled SisterPaperbackUniversity of California Press2005-07-11

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