Roksana Bahramitash is Research Director at the Canada Research Chair of Islam, Pluralism and Globalization at the University of Montreal, Canada.Eric Hooglund is Senior Research Scholar in Contemporary Interpretations of Islam and Muslim Cultures in the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University, Sweden.

• Introduction: The Case for a Gendered Analysis of Contemporary Iran 1. Authority, Modernity and Gender-Relevant Legislation in Iran 2. Gendering Shi’ism in Post-revolutionary Iran 3. Women and Social Protest in the Islamic Republic of Iran 4. Exploring Women’s Experience of Higher Education and the Changing Nature of Gender Relations in Iran 5. Exclusionary Cartographies: Gender Liberation and the Iranian Blogosphere 6. Areas of Iranian Women’s Voice and Influence 7. Post-revolutionary Iranian Youth: Case of Qom and the New Culture of Ambivalence 8. Changing Attitudes among Women in Rural Iran 9. Women’s Employment Trends: Advance or Retreat? 10. Extra-lagal/Informal Settlements: Does Gender Matter 11. Iran in a Regional Context: Socio-Demographic Transformations and Effects on Women’s Social Status

"A thoughtful, insightful look at women's position in Iran today. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above."--A. Rassam, CHOICE (January 2012)"This is a collection with interesting articles, which one hopes will reach a wider audience. Most of the articles included in this collection will be appropriate for upper level undergraduates and graduate students." -- Vika Gardner, Allegheny College, in the Journal of International and Global Studies, 3:1, (November 2011)