Zhinia Noorian is a Postdoc Researcher at Utrecht University, The Netherlands.Brian Griffith is an independent historian living in Toronto, Canada.
Chapter 1: What’s to Admire About Iranian Women.- Chapter 2: Gender in the Language, the Folklore, the Landscape.- Chapter 3: The First Mothers of Iran.- Chapter 4: Women of Iran’s Pre-Islamic Empires.- Chapter 5: Persian Women Under Arab Muslim Conquerors.- Chapter 6: Islam as a Cult of Love.- Chapter 7: A History of the Veil.- Chapter 8: Female Heroes of Medieval Persia.- Chapter 9: The Mothers of Modern Iran.- Chapter 10: Women of the Constitutional Revolution.- Chapter 11: The Movement for Girls’ Education.- Chapter 12: Controlling the Raiders and Banning the Veil.- Chapter 13: Professional Women Redefine Good Work.- Chapter 14: Reformist Women Under the Pahlavi Shahs.- Chapter 15: Women in the Islamic Revolution.- Chapter 16: The Family Law Culture War.- Chapter 17: Sexuality in the Islamic Republic.- Chapter 18: Some Modern Heroes.- Chapter 19: Islam According to Women.