Eric Hooglund is Senior Research Scholar in Contemporary Interpretations of Islam at the Center for Middle East Studies, Lund University, Sweden, and Editor of Middle East Critique. Leif Stenberg is the Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University.

• Introduction Part 1: Political Economy 1. Ideals, Interests and Economic Liberalization in the Islamic Republic of Iran 2. Three Placement Modes of the Economy in Post-revolutionary Iranian Society Part 2: Gender and Politics 3. Gender Transformation in Iran: Thirty Years and Thirty Revolutions 4. Double Agency: Women’s Political Participation in Post-revolutionary Iran 5. The One Million Signatures Campaign and its Impact on Legislators and Legislative Policy in Iran Part 3: Social Inclusion/Exclusion 6. Discourses of Nationalism, Modernization, and Gender in 20th Century Iran 7. Gender, Ethnicity and Identity: Surrender without Consent among Baluchi Women in Changing Contexts 8. Changing Drug Policies: Institutionalizing a New Social Order Part 4: Politics, 2009 and Beyond 9. The Post-Election Protests: Reflections from a Country in Transition Jaleh Taheri 10. The Green Movement Part 5: Dimensions of International Relations 11. Iran’s Influence: A Religio-Political State in its Region and in the World 12. Decoding Ahmadinejad’s Rhetoric on Israel

The strength of this volume is its inclusion of perspectives from inside Iran, whether based on interviews, personal reflections, or studied observation. The essays avoid complicated theorization, a fact that will make these readings accessible to a wide variety of undergraduate readers. These essays may also be helpful for scholars outside of Iranian studies who seek to add comparative data to undergraduate courses.Kathleen Foody PhDCollege of Charleston