In a Voice of Their Own : a Collection of Stories by Iranian Women Written Since the Revolution of 1979

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Book Self Description

This collection provides a window on the concerns of Iranian women, and Iranian women writers in particular, since the Revolution of 1979 and the establishment of the Islamic Republic in Iran. The collection includes eighteen stories written by more than a dozen women during the last twenty years, some of them well-known writers and others just establishing their careers. In these stories, most never before available in translation and rendered here into readable English that captures the style and flavor of the original Persian, Iranian women speak in their own voice to the western reader about marriage, sex, politics, exile and the place of women in Iranian society. A scholarly introduction and bibliography for further reading help contextualize the stories for the western reader, providing an outline of the history of Iranian women in this century and the role of women writers in modern Persian literature. An important book for anyone interested in contemporary Iran, world literature, or women's studies.