Table of Contents

Refashioning Patriarchy - From Private Toward Public Patriarchy; Gender Crisis - Preventing the Future; Gender in Revolution - "Shrouding Freedom"; Gender Ambivalence - "Cultural Imperialism" and Representative Revolutionism; Patriarchy Blessed - Gender Teleology and Violence; From Mothers' Bosoms - Patriarchy Vacillating Between Private and Public; Volatile Times - Gender, Coercion and the Possibilities of Resistance.

About the Author

HAMMED SHAHIDIAN is Honorary Research Fellow at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow (2001-2002). He teaches Sociology at the University of Illinois at Springfield, where he was honored with the University Scholar Award. He is also a research associate at the UIS Institute for Public Affairs. Focusing mainly on gender and political activism and Iranians in exile, Shahidian has published in Qualitative Sociology, Current Sociology, Sexualities, Sociological Inquiry, Feminist Studies, and elsewhere. He serves on the Editorial Board of Sexualities.