Tied Up in Tehran: Women, Social Change, and the Politics of Daily Life in Postrevolutionary Iran [Hardcover]

This innovative study of Iranian daily life reveals post-revolutionary Iran as unexpected, contradictory, and full of political promise.Post-revolutionary Iranian life is unexpected, contradictory, and full of political promise. Norma Claire Moruzzi examines the experiences of women, young people, artists, and activists at home, at work, or in the street. Stories of food and family, film and politics, shopping and crime demonstrate resilient democratization in everyday practice.Post-revolutionary Iranian life is unexpected, contradictory, and full of political promise. Norma Claire Moruzzi examines the experiences of women, young people, artists, and activists at home, at work, or in the street. Stories of food and family, film and politics, shopping and crime demonstrate resilient democratization in everyday practice.Tied Up in Tehran offers a richly interdisciplinary study of ordinary life in Iran since the 1979 revolution and a critical intervention in political theory debates on knowledge and method. Drawing from over ten years of field work in Iran since the 1990s, and originating in the author's surreal experience of being served tangerines during a home invasion in Tehran, Norma Claire Moruzzi examines the experiences of women, young people, artists, and activists: at home, at work, and in the street. These stories - of food and family, film and politics, shopping and crime-reckon with the past, demonstrate resilient democratization in the present, and provide glimpses of a plausible future while offering a refreshing model to ethically engaged modes of study. Moruzzi's lucid and engaging writing explores Iranian daily life as unexpected, contradictory, and full of political promise.Preface: how to read this book; 1. Introduction: the personal is political: how I came to write this book; 2. Tied up in Tehran: a metaphor; 3. How our mothers drive us crazy: hospitality, ritual and the burden of the social; 4. Food as a social relation: Sabzi and the question olC”