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Women and Fluid Identities

Strategic and Practical Pathways Selected by Women

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  1. Haleh Afshar

    1. University of York, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Fluidities of Identities: Some Strategic and Practical Pathways Selected by Women

    • Haleh Afshar
    Pages 1-8

  3. Mothers’ Pasts and Daughters’ Presents and Futures: A Cross-generational Exploration of Women’s Work and Aspirations in Urban China

    • Jieyu Liu
    Pages 9-31

  4. The Wives and Mothers of Heroes: Evolving Identities of Palestinian Refugee Women in Lebanon

    • Maria Holt
    Pages 32-56

  5. Mobilizing Collective Networks to Enable Individual Success: The Case of Middle-class Indian Women Employed in Information Technology

    • Jyothsna Belliappa
    Pages 57-73

  6. Identity, Moral Economy, and Livelihoods: Women’s Use of Microfinance in Luribay, Bolivia

    • Kate Maclean
    Pages 74-93

  7. ‘She Who Disputes’: Muslim Women Activists in Italy and the United Kingdom Speak for Themselves

    • Alessia Belli
    Pages 94-126

  8. The Iranian State’s Religo-Ideological Policies and Their Impact on Young Migrant Women in Tabriz

    • Masoumeh Velayati
    Pages 127-145

  9. Afghan Women’s Resistance and Struggle: Gender, Agency, and Identity

    • Elaheh Rostami-Povey
    Pages 146-165

  10. Competing Interests: Democracy, Islamification, and Women Politicians in Iran

    • Haleh Afshar
    Pages 166-189

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 191-195
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About this book

This book argues that it is the fluidity of women's identities that enables them to bridge the gender divides and roles ascribed to them by society and culture with those that they have chosen for themselves whilst retaining a sense of their self.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of York, UK

    Haleh Afshar

About the editor

ALESSIA BELLI Post-doctoral Student at University of York, UK JYOTHSNA BELLIAPPA Lecturer at University of York, UK MARIA HOLT Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics & International Relations, University of Westminster, UK JIEYU LIU Lecturer in China Studies at the University of Leeds, UK KATE MCLEAN Lecturer in Human Geography at King's College London, UK ELAHEH ROSTAMI-POVEY Research Associate at SOAS, UK MASOUMEH VELYATI Lecturer in Gender and Development at Al-Maktoum College of Higher Education, UK

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Women and Fluid Identities

  • Book Subtitle: Strategic and Practical Pathways Selected by Women

  • Editors: Haleh Afshar

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137265302

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-31409-2Published: 27 November 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-33950-1Published: 01 January 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-26530-2Published: 27 November 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 195

  • Topics: Gender Studies, Migration, Political Science, Ethnicity Studies, Sociology, general, Feminism

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