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  • 1 - Introduction: The Personal Is Political – How I Came to Write This Book

  • Norma Claire Moruzzi, University of Illinois, Chicago
  • Book:
    Tied Up in Tehran
    Published online:
    28 September 2025
    Print publication:
    16 October 2025, pp 1-23

  • 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.