The Armenian woman, minoritarian agency, and the making of Iranian modernity, 1860-1979 / Houri Berberian and Talinn Grigor.

Author/creator Berberian, Houri author.
Other author Grigor, Talinn, 1972- author.
Format Book
PublicationStanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2025]
Descriptionxix, 396 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction : min(d)ing the gap -- Ethnographic subjects and advocates of education -- Transimperial connections and disciplinary power -- Voluntarist ethos and performance of solidarity -- Radical politics of charity and progress -- Charity's triumph and patriarchal reckoning -- The new Armenian woman in action and in print -- The golden age of feminism -- Nation-community and state-minority bonds -- Conclusion : vision Interrupted.
Abstract "With this book, Houri Berberian and Talinn Grigor offer the first history of Armenian women in modern Iran. Foregrounding the work of Armenian women's organizations, the authors trace minoritarian politics and the shifting relationships among doubly minoritized Armenian female subjects, Iran's central nodes of power, and the Irano-Armenian patriarchal institutions of church and political parties. Engaging broader considerations around modernization, nationalism, and feminism, this book makes a conceptually rich contribution to how we think about the history of women and minoritized peoples. Berberian and Grigor read archival, textual, visual, and oral history sources together and against one another to challenge conventional notions of "the archive" and transform silences and absences into audible and visual presences. Understanding minoritarian politics as formulated by women through their various forms of public and intellectual activisms, this book provides a groundbreaking intervention in Iran's history of modernization, Armenian diasporic history, and Iranian and Armenian feminist historiography"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Berberian, Houri. Armenian woman, minoritarian agency, and the making of Iranian modernism, 1860-1979. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2025 9781503641945
LCCN 2024025737
ISBN9781503629417
ISBN1503629414 hardcover
ISBNelectronic book

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