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Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran: Interior Revolutions of the Modern Era

Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran: Interior Revolutions of the Modern Era REVIEW Pamela Karimi Abingdon: Routledge, 2013 258 pages. ISBN 9780415781831 Reviewed by CATHERINE SAMEH In Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran Pamela Karimi offers a history of Iranian modernity through a detailed and exquisitely rendered study of everyday living spaces and commodities. From cooling units to washing machines, visual artifacts and building facades to chairs and home economics pamphlets, Karimi allows domestic objects and the people who give them meaning to narrate the complex negotiations and intersections of secularism, religion, gender, class, and colonial encounter within the forces of moderni- zation in Iran. Shifting our gaze from the big screen of political events to the intimate life of the home, Karimi affords an innovative look into how ordinary Iranian citizens have determined their own aspirations for and meanings of modernity, even as Western colonial influence and strong secularized or Islamized states sought to have the full say. Unfolding chronologically from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century, each chapter explores a facet of daily life inside the home to reveal transformations in the sociospatial boundaries of gendered relationships within Iranian families and society. Far from linear or teleological, however, the book paints a multilayered and complex portrait of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Middle East Women's Studies Duke University Press

Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran: Interior Revolutions of the Modern Era

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REVIEW Pamela Karimi Abingdon: Routledge, 2013 258 pages. ISBN 9780415781831 Reviewed by CATHERINE SAMEH In Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran Pamela Karimi offers a history of Iranian modernity through a detailed and exquisitely rendered study of everyday living spaces and commodities. From cooling units to washing machines, visual artifacts and building facades to chairs and home economics pamphlets, Karimi allows domestic objects and the people who give them meaning to narrate the complex negotiations and intersections of secularism, religion, gender, class, and colonial encounter within the forces of moderni- zation in Iran. Shifting our gaze from the big screen of political events to the intimate life of the home, Karimi affords an innovative look into how ordinary Iranian citizens have determined their own aspirations for and meanings of modernity, even as Western colonial influence and strong secularized or Islamized states sought to have the full say. Unfolding chronologically from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century, each chapter explores a facet of daily life inside the home to reveal transformations in the sociospatial boundaries of gendered relationships within Iranian families and society. Far from linear or teleological, however, the book paints a multilayered and complex portrait of

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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies – Duke University Press

Published: Mar 1, 2019

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