HOMA HOODFAR, “RELIGIOUS IDIOMS AND RIGHTS-BASED DEMANDS: CAN IRANIAN WOMEN ACT AS AGENTS OF A REFORMATION OF SHIA ISLAM?”
Homa Hoodfar is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal. Author of Between Marriage and the Market: Intimate Politics and Survival in Cairo, Professor Hoodfar’s interests span the broad fields of development, human rights and gender issues in Egypt, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Diane Singerman, Associate Professor in the Department of Government at the American University, author of Avenues of Participation: Family, Politics, and Networks in Urban Quarters of Cairo will serve as discussant.Hosted in conjunction with Women’s Herstory Month at NYU.
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