The Politics of Gender Segregation in Iran with Nazanin Shahrokni

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The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and Narges Bajoghli, assistant professor of Middle East Studies, cordially invite you to join a Rethinking Iran series lunch-time discussion with Nazanin Shahrokni, a professor of gender studies at the London School of Economics. She is also currently on the Executive Board of the International Sociological Association and serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Middle Eastern Women's Studies.

Shahrokni will discuss women's rights in contemporary Iran and her new book, Women in Place: The Politics of Gender Segregation in Iran. While much has been written about the impact of the 1979 Islamic revolution on life in Iran, discussions about the everyday life of Iranian women have been glaringly missing. Shahrokni provides accounts of spaces in Iran that are unknown to most of the outside world: gender-segregated buses, a women-only park, and outside the closed doors of stadiums where women are banned from attending men's soccer matches. She challenges notions of the Iranian state as overly unitary, ideological, and isolated from social forces, pushing us to consider the changing place of women in the Islamic Republic.

The Rethinking Iran series brings a fresh perspective to exploring the cultural, societal, and political consequences of the 1979 Revolution within Iran and across its borders. The initiative presents an in-depth view of modern Iranian culture and society by offering insights from artists, journalists, academics, and other subject-matter experts alongside hot-button geopolitical issues.