Tied Up in Tehran

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.

Norma Claire Moruzzi is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Political Science at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She is also a member and past chair of the editorial committee of the journal Middle East Report. Her first book, Speaking through the Mask: Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Social Identity (Cornell University Press: 2000) won the 2002 Gradiva Book Award.