The Other Side of Silence A Memoir of Exile, Iran, and the Global Women's Movement.
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, (c)2022.
- 1 online resource (315 pages)
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Author's Note -- Prologue -- PART I -- Chapter 1. The Women of Kerman -- Chapter 2. Coming to America -- Chapter 3. Return to Iran -- Chapter 4. With the Iranian Delegation at the United Nation -- Chapter 5. The Women's Organization of Iran -- Chapter 6. West Meets East -- Chapter 7. 1975: International Women's Year -- Chapter 8. Appointment to Iran's Cabinet -- Chapter 9. Prime Minister's Dilemma: A Feminist in the Cabinet -- Chapter 10. A Preface to the Revolution -- Chapter 11. Exile -- PART II Chapter 12. Choosing Alliances and Moving Forward -- Chapter 13. Farah -- Chapter 14. Sisterhood -- Chapter 15. SIGI Comes Into Its Own -- Chapter 16. Women in Iran -- Chapter 17. Endings and Beginnings -- Chapter 18. Women's Learning Partnership -- Chapter 19. The War on Terror -- Chapter 20. Iranian Feminism and the Green Revolution -- Chapter 21. Changing the Architecture of Human Relationships -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
"When Mahnaz Afkhami picked up the phone in a New York hotel room early one morning in November 1978, she learned she could never go home again: she had been declared an apostate and enemy of the Iranian Revolution and was now on its death list. Afkhami, Iran's first minister for women's affairs, began to rebuild her life in the United States, becoming an architect of the women's movement in the Global South. Along the way, she encountered familial, cultural, political, and organizational hurdles that threatened to derail her quest to empower women and change the very structure of human relations. A skilled storyteller who has spent her life in two worlds, Mahnaz Afkhami shares her unexpected and meteoric rise from unassuming English professor to a champion of women's rights in Iran; the clash between Western feminists and those from the Global South; and the challenges of international women's rights work during the so-called war on terror"--
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Afkhami, Mahnaz.
Feminism. Women's rights. Political activists--United States--Biography. Political activists--Iran--Biography. Women political activists--United States--Biography. Women political activists--Iran--Biography.