Conceiving citizens : women and the politics of motherhood in Iran /
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part 1: Hygiene and citizenship
- Healing Iran: hygiene and social change in the Qajar era
- Population politics: epidemics and the "crisis" of midwifery
- Part 2: Marriage, maternity, and sexuality
- From celibacy to companionship: the evolution of Persian marriages
- Sexual mores, social lives: maternalism and venereal disease
- Giving birth: modern nursing and reproductive politics
- Schooling mothers: patriotic education and women's "renewal"
- Defrocking the nation: unveiling and the politics of dress
- Part 3: Politics and reproduction
- From mothers to voters: suffrage, literacy, and family dynamics
- Managing birth: family planning and healthcare
- Civil liberties, civic wombs: women in the Islamic republic
- Epilogue.