TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122
Copyright © 2024 by Temple University—Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education
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Published 2024
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Chubin, Fae, 1985– author.
Title: Proper women : feminism and the politics of respectability in Iran / Fae Chubin.
Description: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2024. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “This book looks at a women’s empowerment NGO in Iran that struggled to connect its clientele with global notions of feminism. Clients found that the Western-informed concepts preferred by the center’s staff read as upper-class. The author theorizes a sensitive relationship between global and situated notions of feminism”— Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2023033008 (print) | LCCN 2023033009 (ebook) | ISBN 9781439923276 (cloth) | ISBN 9781439923283 (paperback) | ISBN 9781439923290 (pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Women—Iran—Social conditions—21st century. | Women social reformers—Iran—Social conditions—21st century. | Feminists—Iran—Social conditions—21st century. | Feminism—Iran. | Women’s rights—Iran. | Non-governmental organizations—Iran.
Classification: LCC HQ1735.2 .C488 2024 (print) | LCC HQ1735.2 (ebook) | DDC 305.420955—dc23/eng/20231108
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023033008
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023033009
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