The fieldwork for this book started in 1983, and my last visit to Cairo was in February 1994. But my interest in the cultural contexts of household economy, particularly women's roles in it, goes back to my childhood in Tehran, Iran, where I was born and raised. Despite my mother's young age,...

Homa Hoodfar and Fatemeh Sadeghi look at how the women's movement built their base and strength in the 2000s in the face of a highly charged and politicized post-revolutionary Iran. Development (2009) 52, 215–223. doi:10.1057/dev.2009.19

Having reversed its pronatalist policies in 1988, the Islamic Republic of Iran implemented one of the most successful family planning programs in the developing world. This achievement, particularly in urban centers, is largely attributable to a large women-led volunteer health worker program...

Ongoing resistance to gender equality in Muslim societies, despite considerable industrialisation and development in many of them, has supported the assumption that Islam, itself, poses a formidable barrier to gender equality. In recent years, the treatment of Afghan women by the Taliban has...