Abstract

Table of Contents -- Notes on Transliteration -- Introduction -- Part I: Main Intellectual Trends -- Intellectuals and Society in Iran since 1953 -- The Trajectory of the 1953 Military Coup and the Course of Liberal Islam in Iran: A Sociological Analysis -- Constructing and Deconstructing Othering: Polycentrism versus Westoxication in Iran -- Part II: The Voices of the Less Visible -- Insurmountable Hurdles to the Countering of Patriarchal Gender Discourse under a Clerical Oligarchy? Experiences of Feminists in the Islamic Republic of Iran -- Heirs of Modernity in Rural Iran -- Part III: Social Change in the Mirror of Art -- The Rebellious Man and the Courageous Woman: Social Criticism and Gender Relations in Iranian Film Production before and after the Islamic Revolution -- Between Change and Persistence: Reżā Julāʼi's Short Story Miti-Jenn as a Mirror of Social Developments in Iran -- Note on Contributors -- Index of Names and Places.