Description
Book SynopsisLeila Alikarami is a practicing lawyer and human rights activist who grew up in Tehran, where she completed her legal training with Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi. Since 2001, Alikarami has focused on women's and children's rights and in 2009 she accepted the RAW in War (Reach All Women in War) Anna Politkovskaya Award on behalf of the women of Iran and the One Million Signatures campaign. She has a PhD from SOAS, University of London, UK.
Trade ReviewWomen and Equality in Iran has all the hallmarks of a seminal work. Leila Alikarimi has managed to apply scholarship and feminist theory through her personal experience of gender discrimination and command of legal frameworks to produce an insightful and gripping account. The result is a captivating book that examines how the women movement in Iran has campaigned for change, for the ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), and for adopting legal protection for women by appealing to a less-patriarchal reading of Islam. * British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies *
Alikarami’s work is significant, offering as it does a pragmatic strategy for achieving greater gender equality for Iranian women. * Gender & Development *
Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: The Political and Legal System of the Islamic Republic of Iran Chapter 2: Iranian Women Demanding Equal Rights: The Case of Iran’s Criminal Code Chapter 3: Iranian Women’s Struggle for Gender Equality: The Case of Iran’s Civil Code Chapter 4: The Development of Universal Standards on Gender Equality: CEDAW Chapter 5: The Argument over CEDAW in Iran Chapter 6: The One Million Signatures Campaign: Domestic Discourse on Gender Equality Conclusion
