Book contents
- Tied Up in Tehran
- Tied Up in Tehran
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Tables
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: The Personal Is Political – How I Came to Write This Book
- 2 Tied Up in Tehran: A Metaphor
- 3 How Our Mothers Drive Us Crazy: Hospitality, Ritual, and the Burden of the Social
- 4 Food as a Social Relation: Sabzi and the Question of Household Skilled Labor
- 5 Elegy or The Rule of the Fathers: The Break with the Past
- 6 Democratic Intimacies: Jokes, Sex, and Ta’arof
- 7 Through the Looking Glass: Reflexive Cinema and Society in Postrevolutionary Iran
- 8 Women, Life, Freedom: One Movement out of Two Legacies
- 9 Being a Public Woman: Streets, Cars, Crimes, and the Shifting Calculus of Moral Accountability
- 10 Shopping for Shoes: Consumer Identity, Commodity Fetishism, and Gender as a Brand
- 11 We Are More Than One, When We Speak Together: Collective Art, Plural Possibilities, and the Horizon of Utopia
- 12 Coda: Thinking in Practice – Arendt, Foucault, and the Challenge of Freedom
- Bibliography
- Index
1 - Introduction: The Personal Is Political – How I Came to Write This Book
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 September 2025
Book contents
- Tied Up in Tehran
- Tied Up in Tehran
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Tables
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: The Personal Is Political – How I Came to Write This Book
- 2 Tied Up in Tehran: A Metaphor
- 3 How Our Mothers Drive Us Crazy: Hospitality, Ritual, and the Burden of the Social
- 4 Food as a Social Relation: Sabzi and the Question of Household Skilled Labor
- 5 Elegy or The Rule of the Fathers: The Break with the Past
- 6 Democratic Intimacies: Jokes, Sex, and Ta’arof
- 7 Through the Looking Glass: Reflexive Cinema and Society in Postrevolutionary Iran
- 8 Women, Life, Freedom: One Movement out of Two Legacies
- 9 Being a Public Woman: Streets, Cars, Crimes, and the Shifting Calculus of Moral Accountability
- 10 Shopping for Shoes: Consumer Identity, Commodity Fetishism, and Gender as a Brand
- 11 We Are More Than One, When We Speak Together: Collective Art, Plural Possibilities, and the Horizon of Utopia
- 12 Coda: Thinking in Practice – Arendt, Foucault, and the Challenge of Freedom
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The Introduction provides background on Iran and on the author, including the motivations for the book and the writing process. The book is based on ten years of fieldwork in Iran conducted from the 1990s until 2007; the Introduction explains how a study of the politics of daily life became the prism for inquiring into contemporary issues of power, freedom, and agency. For nonspecialist readers, an overview of Iran’s twentieth-century political and social history offers context. For all readers, the chapter offers a case study of an interpretative method, centered on the experience of watching an Iranian film in Chicago, and speaking about it with Iranian women in Tehran.
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- Tied Up in TehranWomen, Social Change, and the Politics of Daily Life in Postrevolutionary Iran, pp. 1 - 23Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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