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LawGender StudiesHuman Rights LawHuman RightsRights Of WomenWomen's StudiesCultural Rights Of WomenFeminist Legal TheoryIslamic JurisprudenceWomen's Legal StatusWomen's Political RightsWomen's Social RightsGender In IslamHuman Rights MechanismsIslamic Women's WritingRights In Islamic ThoughtWomen's Right To CultureWomen's Rights In IslamWomen’s Human RightsWomen’s Status
Preface ix Acknowledgments xvii INTRODUCTION: Human and Cultural Practice 1 CHAPTER ONE: A Genealogy of Rights in Iran 20 CHAPTER TWO: Producing States: Women's Participation and the Dialogics of 42 CHAPTER THREE: Qur'anic Meetings: Doing the Cultural Work 75 CHAPTER FOUR: Courting Rights: Talk in Islamico-Civil Family Court 108 CHAPTER FIVE: Practice and Effect: Writing/Righting the Law 138 CHAPTER SIX: Human Rights: The Politics and Prose of Discursive Sites 166 CONCLUSION: Rights as Exhibition at the Brink of War 200 APPENDIX: The Iranian Marriage Contract 209 Notes 211 Glossary 227 Bibliography 231 Index 251