The other side of silence : a memoir of exile, Iran, & the global women's movement /
"When Mahnaz Afkhami picked up the phone in a New York hotel room early one morning in November 1978, she learned she could never go home again: she had been declared an apostate and enemy of the Iranian Revolution and was now on its death list. Afkhami, Iran's first minister for women...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2022]
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| Accés en línia: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3374719 |
| Sumari: | "When Mahnaz Afkhami picked up the phone in a New York hotel room early one morning in November 1978, she learned she could never go home again: she had been declared an apostate and enemy of the Iranian Revolution and was now on its death list. Afkhami, Iran's first minister for women's affairs, began to rebuild her life in the United States, becoming an architect of the women's movement in the Global South. Along the way, she encountered familial, cultural, political, and organizational hurdles that threatened to derail her quest to empower women and change the very structure of human relations. A skilled storyteller who has spent her life in two worlds, Mahnaz Afkhami shares her unexpected and meteoric rise from unassuming English professor to a champion of women's rights in Iran; the clash between Western feminists and those from the Global South; and the challenges of international women's rights work during the so-called war on terror"-- |
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| Descripció de l’ítem: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Descripció física: | 1 online resource (315 pages) |
| Bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1469670011 9781469670010 9781469670003 1469670003 9781469669991 1469669994 |