Women and Fluid Identities

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Fluidities of Identities: Some Strategic and Practical Pathways Selected by Women

   • Haleh Afshar

   Pages 1-8

3. Mothers’ Pasts and Daughters’ Presents and Futures: A Cross-generational Exploration of Women’s Work and Aspirations in Urban China

   • Jieyu Liu

   Pages 9-31

4. The Wives and Mothers of Heroes: Evolving Identities of Palestinian Refugee Women in Lebanon

   • Maria Holt

   Pages 32-56

5. Mobilizing Collective Networks to Enable Individual Success: The Case of Middle-class Indian Women Employed in Information Technology

   • Jyothsna Belliappa

   Pages 57-73

6. Identity, Moral Economy, and Livelihoods: Women’s Use of Microfinance in Luribay, Bolivia

   • Kate Maclean

   Pages 74-93

7. ‘She Who Disputes’: Muslim Women Activists in Italy and the United Kingdom Speak for Themselves

   • Alessia Belli

   Pages 94-126

8. The Iranian State’s Religo-Ideological Policies and Their Impact on Young Migrant Women in Tabriz

   • Masoumeh Velayati

   Pages 127-145

9. Afghan Women’s Resistance and Struggle: Gender, Agency, and Identity

   • Elaheh Rostami-Povey

   Pages 146-165

10. Competing Interests: Democracy, Islamification, and Women Politicians in Iran

    • Haleh Afshar

    Pages 166-189

11. Back Matter

    Pages 191-195

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This book argues that it is the fluidity of women's identities that enables them to bridge the gender divides and roles ascribed to them by society and culture with those that they have chosen for themselves whilst retaining a sense of their self.

• democracy
• economy
• gender
• Generation
• identity
• information technology
• Moral
• women
• work

• University of York, UK

  Haleh Afshar

ALESSIA BELLI Post-doctoral Student at University of York, UK JYOTHSNA BELLIAPPA Lecturer at University of York, UK MARIA HOLT Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics & International Relations, University of Westminster, UK JIEYU LIU Lecturer in China Studies at the University of Leeds, UK KATE MCLEAN Lecturer in Human Geography at King's College London, UK ELAHEH ROSTAMI-POVEY Research Associate at SOAS, UK MASOUMEH VELYATI Lecturer in Gender and Development at Al-Maktoum College of Higher Education, UK

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