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Women's Autobiography in Contemporary Iran

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Paperback , 78 pages
Published January 1st 1991 by Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
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maryam
The book is a collection of four essays on Autobiographies in Iran. I didn't like the last one's way of concluding. Also, the publication date is 1990, which is rather old in this field of study. New books on the issue must be written.
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Afsāneh Najmābādi (Persian: افسانه نجمآبادی) (born 1946) is an Iranian-American historian and gender theorist. She is professor of History and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. At present she chairs the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. She is further Associate Editor of Encyclopaedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, in six volumes.

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