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The Status of Women among the Qashqai of South Iran

The Status of Women among the Qashqai of South Iran  Brill, Leiden, 2004 Iran and the Caucasus, 8.1 THE STATUS OF WOMEN AMONG THE QASHQAI OF SOUTH IRAN SEKANDAR AMANOLAHI Shiraz University Introduction The anthropological studies dealing with the status of women have grown rapidly in recent years. In her review of the materials dealing with the subject, including the feminist movement in the U.S., Naomi Quinn states: “Apart from their personal interest in women’s status, the movement itself has cast them in the key intellectual role defining women’s place in a revised theory of the evolution of human society. Beginning in the early 1970’s and rising to a current crescendo of books and articles, anthropologists representing all theoretical persua- sions, most of them American and most of them women, have pro- duced an entire new literature on the status of women cross-cultur- ally”. 1 Despite these developments, the position of women among the pas- toralists of Iran and the Middle East in general is still a subject of con- troversy and remains to be more fully investigated. The anthropologi- cal studies dealing with the nomads of the Middle East are not con- cerned with the status of women in these societies or present contra- dictory views http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Iran and the Caucasus Brill

The Status of Women among the Qashqai of South Iran

Amanolahi, Sekandar
Iran and the Caucasus , Volume 8 (1): 131 – Jan 1, 2004
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© 2004 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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 Brill, Leiden, 2004 Iran and the Caucasus, 8.1 THE STATUS OF WOMEN AMONG THE QASHQAI OF SOUTH IRAN SEKANDAR AMANOLAHI Shiraz University Introduction The anthropological studies dealing with the status of women have grown rapidly in recent years. In her review of the materials dealing with the subject, including the feminist movement in the U.S., Naomi Quinn states: “Apart from their personal interest in women’s status, the movement itself has cast them in the key intellectual role defining women’s place in a revised theory of the evolution of human society. Beginning in the early 1970’s and rising to a current crescendo of books and articles, anthropologists representing all theoretical persua- sions, most of them American and most of them women, have pro- duced an entire new literature on the status of women cross-cultur- ally”. 1 Despite these developments, the position of women among the pas- toralists of Iran and the Middle East in general is still a subject of con- troversy and remains to be more fully investigated. The anthropologi- cal studies dealing with the nomads of the Middle East are not con- cerned with the status of women in these societies or present contra- dictory views

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