Homa Hoodfar
Biographic Data
| ID | 79433 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Homa Hoodfar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Homa |
| FAMILY NAME | Hoodfar |
| SIGNATURE | HOODFAR H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 109 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Porter son identité à l'ère de la mondialisation: Politiques du voile et de la mode en contextes musulman et occidental
En dépit de nombreuses recherches et d'un nombre considérable de publications qui traitent de la complexité de la question du voile musulman et de sa versatilité, en Occident, le discours public et les interventions étatiques qui ont visé à l'interdire continuent pour une large part d'associer le port du voile aux représentations remontant à l'époque coloniale qui en faisaient un outil d'oppression et d'asservissement. Le sous-texte qui accompagn…
Sexuality, Culture and Public Politics in the Middle East
The role of sexuality in the construction of various social institutions and in the maintenance of power hierarchies has long been a significant focus of anthropological research (Leacock and Safa 1986; MacCormack and Strathern 1980; Wolkowitz et al. 1981). Indeed anthropologists and sociologists have been mindful of the extent to which sexuality constitutes a highly contested terrain that is tightly patrolled by religious forces, morality codes …
Sexuality in Muslim Contexts: Restrictions and Resistance
This groundbreaking book explores resistance against the harsh policing of sexuality in some Muslim societies. Many Muslim majority countries still use religious discourse to enforce stigmatization and repression of those, especially women, who do not conform to sexual norms promoted either by the state or by non-state actors. In this context, Islam is often stigmatized in Western discourse for being intrinsically restrictive with respect to wome…
Iran: Politiques islamiques et femmes en quête d'égalité
En Iran, la fusion d’un État fort avec des lois et institutions religieuses après la révolution iranienne de 1979 a engendré une structure étatique duale. Les instances non élues y exercent leur contrôle sur les organes élus et n’acceptent pour la plupart ni le primat de la démocratie, ni le principe d’égalité des sexes (ou entre musulmans et non-musulmans). La question centrale posée ici est de savoir si un État religieux est à même de se confor…
Islamic Politics and Women's Quest for Gender Equality in Iran
The unification of a strong and authoritarian state with religious laws and institutions after the 1979 revolution in Iran has resulted in the creation of a dualistic state structure in which non-elected and non-accountable state authorities and institutions-the majority of whom have not accepted either the primacy of democracy nor the premise of equality between men and women (or Muslims and non-Muslims)-are able to oversee the elected authoriti…
Health as a Context for Social and Gender Activism: Female Volunteer Health Workers in Iran
Having reversed its pronatalist policies in 1988, the Islamic Republic of Iran implemented one of the most successful family planning programs in the developing world. This achievement, particularly in urban centers, is largely attributable to a large women-led volunteer health worker program for low-income urban neighborhoods. Research in three cities demonstrates that this successful program has had a host of unintended consequences. In a conte…
Against All Odds: The women's movement in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Women, religion and the ‘Afghan Education Movement’ in Iran
Ongoing resistance to gender equality in Muslim societies, despite considerable industrialisation and development in many of them, has supported the assumption that Islam, itself, poses a formidable barrier to gender equality. In recent years, the treatment of Afghan women by the Taliban has only reinforced that assumption. However, it happens that certain social transformations have taken place in some Muslim societies, sometimes in unlikely cor…
The Muslim Veil in North America. Issues and Debates
More Than Clothing: Veiling As an Adaptive Strategy Coding Dress: Gender and the Articulation of Identity in a Canadian Muslim School Banners of Faith and Identities in Construct: The hijab in Canada Voices of Muslim Women Perceptions of the hijab in Canada Muslim Women and Islamic Religious Tradition: A Historical Overview and Contemporary Issues Women 's Modesty in Qur 'anic Commentaries: The Founding Discourse Hijab According to the Hadith: Te…
The Muslim Veil in North America: Issues and Debates
Journal Article The Muslim Veil in North America: Issues and Debates, Sajida Sultana Alvi, Homa Hoodfar, and Sheila McDonough (eds). Toronto: Women's Press, 2003, 300pp.; $29.95 CAD (paper) Get access Helen Rose Ebaugh Helen Rose Ebaugh University of Houston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 66, Issue 2, Summer 2005, Pages 201–202, https://doi.org/10.2307/4153086 Published: 01 J…
Families on the Move: The Changing Role of Afghan Refugee Women in Iran
In their attempts to "modernize" and bring about socio-economic change, Afghan governments have been preoccupied with restructuring the institutions of marriage and family, and women's role within them, since the 1880s. Serious commitment to introduce legal reform and democratize the family and gender roles cost King Amanullah his throne (1919–1929). From 1930 to 1976 the government attempted a gradual approach introducing reforms piecemeal which…
"Orientalism" and Middle East Feminist Studies
The Politics of Population Policy in the Islamic Republic of Iran
The Islamic Republic of Iran arguably has one of the most successful family planning programs in the developing world. This success is all the more interesting for advocates of population programs because the political leaders of the Islamic regime were once strongly opposed to family planning. Indeed, after gaining power following the 1979 revolution, they were responsible for dismantling Iran's relatively new family planning program and introdu…
Between Marriage and the Market: Intimate Politics and Survival in Cairo
Between Marriage and the Market: Intimate Politics and Survival in Cairo
Between Marriage and the Market: Intimate Politics and Survival in Cairo
Between Marriage and the Market: Intimate Politics and Survival in Cairo
Between Marriage and the Market: Intimate Politics and Survival in Cairo
The Veil in Their Minds and on Our Heads: Veiling Practices and Muslim Women
The Impact of Male Migration on Domestic Budgeting: Egyptian Women Striving for an Islamic Budgeting Pattern
Apart from studies of the economic impact of large-scale male migration from Egypt to the Arab oil-producing countries, little scholary attention has been paid to this social phenomenon and the creation of a significant number of de facto female headed households. This article focuses on the influence of male migration on domestic budgeting and the position of wives within low-income Cairence households. The data, drawn from a sample of 42 househ…
Development, Change, and Gender in Cairo: A View from the Household
A firsthand look at political, social, and economic change in contemporary Egypt as it affects the family and the household.
Women and Personal Status Law in Iran: An Interview with Mehranguiz Kar
Mehranguiz Kar, Homa Hoodfar, Women and Personal Status Law in Iran: An Interview with Mehranguiz Kar, Middle East Report, No. 198, Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East (Jan. - Mar., 1996), pp. 36-38
Bargaining with fundamentalism: Women and the politics of population control in Iran
An examination of the Islamic Republic of Iran's policies on family planning, women's education, labour market and personal status law demonstrates the regime's flexibility and sophistication in co-opting competing ideologies and all that modernity can contribute to the regime's survival. In the process, the religious-political leaders have revised many of their Islamic stances, particularly on the issue of family planning. This revisionist atmos…
Devices and Desires: Population Policy and Gender Roles in the Islamic Republic
There is a widely held assumption that Islamist ideology is incompatible with modernity and feminism. Active debate in Iran about the dynamics of population policy and women's rights and responsibilities, together with the government's efforts to build public consensus on the need for birth control and family planning, however, suggest that Islam may be flexible and adaptable in response to political and economic realities. Iranian women individu…
The Impact of Egyptian Male Migration on Urban Families: ‘Feminization of the Egyptian Family’ or a Reaffirmation of Traditional Gender Roles
Cet article tente d'evaluer l'impact familial et social de l'emigration masculine egyptienne en direction des pays arabes producteurs de petrole. Cette emigration s'effectuant sans rapprochement familial dans un but d'augmenter les ressources du menage, de nombreux foyers egyptiens se retrouvent de fait avec une femme a leur tete, ce qui modifie les donnees conventionnelles des roles familiaux. La question de savoir si ce pouvoir accru des femmes…
"Orientalism" and Middle East Feminist Studies
The Politics of Population Policy in the Islamic Republic of Iran
The Islamic Republic of Iran arguably has one of the most successful family planning programs in the developing world. This success is all the more interesting for advocates of population programs because the political leaders of the Islamic regime were once strongly opposed to family planning. Indeed, after gaining power following the 1979 revolution, they were responsible for dismantling Iran's relatively new family planning program and introdu…
The Muslim Veil in North America. Issues and Debates
More Than Clothing: Veiling As an Adaptive Strategy Coding Dress: Gender and the Articulation of Identity in a Canadian Muslim School Banners of Faith and Identities in Construct: The hijab in Canada Voices of Muslim Women Perceptions of the hijab in Canada Muslim Women and Islamic Religious Tradition: A Historical Overview and Contemporary Issues Women 's Modesty in Qur 'anic Commentaries: The Founding Discourse Hijab According to the Hadith: Te…
Islamic Politics and Women's Quest for Gender Equality in Iran
The unification of a strong and authoritarian state with religious laws and institutions after the 1979 revolution in Iran has resulted in the creation of a dualistic state structure in which non-elected and non-accountable state authorities and institutions-the majority of whom have not accepted either the primacy of democracy nor the premise of equality between men and women (or Muslims and non-Muslims)-are able to oversee the elected authoriti…
Bargaining with fundamentalism: Women and the politics of population control in Iran
An examination of the Islamic Republic of Iran's policies on family planning, women's education, labour market and personal status law demonstrates the regime's flexibility and sophistication in co-opting competing ideologies and all that modernity can contribute to the regime's survival. In the process, the religious-political leaders have revised many of their Islamic stances, particularly on the issue of family planning. This revisionist atmos…
Families on the Move: The Changing Role of Afghan Refugee Women in Iran
In their attempts to "modernize" and bring about socio-economic change, Afghan governments have been preoccupied with restructuring the institutions of marriage and family, and women's role within them, since the 1880s. Serious commitment to introduce legal reform and democratize the family and gender roles cost King Amanullah his throne (1919–1929). From 1930 to 1976 the government attempted a gradual approach introducing reforms piecemeal which…
The Impact of Male Migration on Domestic Budgeting: Egyptian Women Striving for an Islamic Budgeting Pattern
Apart from studies of the economic impact of large-scale male migration from Egypt to the Arab oil-producing countries, little scholary attention has been paid to this social phenomenon and the creation of a significant number of de facto female headed households. This article focuses on the influence of male migration on domestic budgeting and the position of wives within low-income Cairence households. The data, drawn from a sample of 42 househ…
Porter son identité à l'ère de la mondialisation: Politiques du voile et de la mode en contextes musulman et occidental
En dépit de nombreuses recherches et d'un nombre considérable de publications qui traitent de la complexité de la question du voile musulman et de sa versatilité, en Occident, le discours public et les interventions étatiques qui ont visé à l'interdire continuent pour une large part d'associer le port du voile aux représentations remontant à l'époque coloniale qui en faisaient un outil d'oppression et d'asservissement. Le sous-texte qui accompagn…
Health as a Context for Social and Gender Activism: Female Volunteer Health Workers in Iran
Having reversed its pronatalist policies in 1988, the Islamic Republic of Iran implemented one of the most successful family planning programs in the developing world. This achievement, particularly in urban centers, is largely attributable to a large women-led volunteer health worker program for low-income urban neighborhoods. Research in three cities demonstrates that this successful program has had a host of unintended consequences. In a conte…
The Impact of Egyptian Male Migration on Urban Families: ‘Feminization of the Egyptian Family’ or a Reaffirmation of Traditional Gender Roles
Cet article tente d'evaluer l'impact familial et social de l'emigration masculine egyptienne en direction des pays arabes producteurs de petrole. Cette emigration s'effectuant sans rapprochement familial dans un but d'augmenter les ressources du menage, de nombreux foyers egyptiens se retrouvent de fait avec une femme a leur tete, ce qui modifie les donnees conventionnelles des roles familiaux. La question de savoir si ce pouvoir accru des femmes…
The Impact of Egyptian Male Migration on Urban Families: ‘Feminization of the Egyptian Family’ or a Reaffirmation of Traditional Gender Roles
Cet article tente d'evaluer l'impact familial et social de l'emigration masculine egyptienne en direction des pays arabes producteurs de petrole. Cette emigration s'effectuant sans rapprochement familial dans un but d'augmenter les ressources du menage, de nombreux foyers egyptiens se retrouvent de fait avec une femme a leur tete, ce qui modifie les donnees conventionnelles des roles familiaux. La question de savoir si ce pouvoir accru des femmes…
Devices and Desires: Population Policy and Gender Roles in the Islamic Republic
There is a widely held assumption that Islamist ideology is incompatible with modernity and feminism. Active debate in Iran about the dynamics of population policy and women's rights and responsibilities, together with the government's efforts to build public consensus on the need for birth control and family planning, however, suggest that Islam may be flexible and adaptable in response to political and economic realities. Iranian women individu…
Development, Change, and Gender in Cairo: A View from the Household
A firsthand look at political, social, and economic change in contemporary Egypt as it affects the family and the household.
Women and Personal Status Law in Iran: An Interview with Mehranguiz Kar
Mehranguiz Kar, Homa Hoodfar, Women and Personal Status Law in Iran: An Interview with Mehranguiz Kar, Middle East Report, No. 198, Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East (Jan. - Mar., 1996), pp. 36-38
Bargaining with fundamentalism: Women and the politics of population control in Iran
An examination of the Islamic Republic of Iran's policies on family planning, women's education, labour market and personal status law demonstrates the regime's flexibility and sophistication in co-opting competing ideologies and all that modernity can contribute to the regime's survival. In the process, the religious-political leaders have revised many of their Islamic stances, particularly on the issue of family planning. This revisionist atmos…
Between Marriage and the Market: Intimate Politics and Survival in Cairo
The Veil in Their Minds and on Our Heads: Veiling Practices and Muslim Women
The Impact of Male Migration on Domestic Budgeting: Egyptian Women Striving for an Islamic Budgeting Pattern
Apart from studies of the economic impact of large-scale male migration from Egypt to the Arab oil-producing countries, little scholary attention has been paid to this social phenomenon and the creation of a significant number of de facto female headed households. This article focuses on the influence of male migration on domestic budgeting and the position of wives within low-income Cairence households. The data, drawn from a sample of 42 househ…
Between Marriage and the Market: Intimate Politics and Survival in Cairo
Between Marriage and the Market: Intimate Politics and Survival in Cairo
Between Marriage and the Market: Intimate Politics and Survival in Cairo
The Politics of Population Policy in the Islamic Republic of Iran
The Islamic Republic of Iran arguably has one of the most successful family planning programs in the developing world. This success is all the more interesting for advocates of population programs because the political leaders of the Islamic regime were once strongly opposed to family planning. Indeed, after gaining power following the 1979 revolution, they were responsible for dismantling Iran's relatively new family planning program and introdu…
Between Marriage and the Market: Intimate Politics and Survival in Cairo
"Orientalism" and Middle East Feminist Studies
Families on the Move: The Changing Role of Afghan Refugee Women in Iran
In their attempts to "modernize" and bring about socio-economic change, Afghan governments have been preoccupied with restructuring the institutions of marriage and family, and women's role within them, since the 1880s. Serious commitment to introduce legal reform and democratize the family and gender roles cost King Amanullah his throne (1919–1929). From 1930 to 1976 the government attempted a gradual approach introducing reforms piecemeal which…
The Muslim Veil in North America: Issues and Debates
Journal Article The Muslim Veil in North America: Issues and Debates, Sajida Sultana Alvi, Homa Hoodfar, and Sheila McDonough (eds). Toronto: Women's Press, 2003, 300pp.; $29.95 CAD (paper) Get access Helen Rose Ebaugh Helen Rose Ebaugh University of Houston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 66, Issue 2, Summer 2005, Pages 201–202, https://doi.org/10.2307/4153086 Published: 01 J…
The Muslim Veil in North America. Issues and Debates
More Than Clothing: Veiling As an Adaptive Strategy Coding Dress: Gender and the Articulation of Identity in a Canadian Muslim School Banners of Faith and Identities in Construct: The hijab in Canada Voices of Muslim Women Perceptions of the hijab in Canada Muslim Women and Islamic Religious Tradition: A Historical Overview and Contemporary Issues Women 's Modesty in Qur 'anic Commentaries: The Founding Discourse Hijab According to the Hadith: Te…
Women, religion and the ‘Afghan Education Movement’ in Iran
Ongoing resistance to gender equality in Muslim societies, despite considerable industrialisation and development in many of them, has supported the assumption that Islam, itself, poses a formidable barrier to gender equality. In recent years, the treatment of Afghan women by the Taliban has only reinforced that assumption. However, it happens that certain social transformations have taken place in some Muslim societies, sometimes in unlikely cor…
Against All Odds: The women's movement in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Islamic Politics and Women's Quest for Gender Equality in Iran
The unification of a strong and authoritarian state with religious laws and institutions after the 1979 revolution in Iran has resulted in the creation of a dualistic state structure in which non-elected and non-accountable state authorities and institutions-the majority of whom have not accepted either the primacy of democracy nor the premise of equality between men and women (or Muslims and non-Muslims)-are able to oversee the elected authoriti…
Health as a Context for Social and Gender Activism: Female Volunteer Health Workers in Iran
Having reversed its pronatalist policies in 1988, the Islamic Republic of Iran implemented one of the most successful family planning programs in the developing world. This achievement, particularly in urban centers, is largely attributable to a large women-led volunteer health worker program for low-income urban neighborhoods. Research in three cities demonstrates that this successful program has had a host of unintended consequences. In a conte…
Sexuality in Muslim Contexts: Restrictions and Resistance
This groundbreaking book explores resistance against the harsh policing of sexuality in some Muslim societies. Many Muslim majority countries still use religious discourse to enforce stigmatization and repression of those, especially women, who do not conform to sexual norms promoted either by the state or by non-state actors. In this context, Islam is often stigmatized in Western discourse for being intrinsically restrictive with respect to wome…
Iran: Politiques islamiques et femmes en quête d'égalité
En Iran, la fusion d’un État fort avec des lois et institutions religieuses après la révolution iranienne de 1979 a engendré une structure étatique duale. Les instances non élues y exercent leur contrôle sur les organes élus et n’acceptent pour la plupart ni le primat de la démocratie, ni le principe d’égalité des sexes (ou entre musulmans et non-musulmans). La question centrale posée ici est de savoir si un État religieux est à même de se confor…
Sexuality, Culture and Public Politics in the Middle East
The role of sexuality in the construction of various social institutions and in the maintenance of power hierarchies has long been a significant focus of anthropological research (Leacock and Safa 1986; MacCormack and Strathern 1980; Wolkowitz et al. 1981). Indeed anthropologists and sociologists have been mindful of the extent to which sexuality constitutes a highly contested terrain that is tightly patrolled by religious forces, morality codes …
Porter son identité à l'ère de la mondialisation: Politiques du voile et de la mode en contextes musulman et occidental
En dépit de nombreuses recherches et d'un nombre considérable de publications qui traitent de la complexité de la question du voile musulman et de sa versatilité, en Occident, le discours public et les interventions étatiques qui ont visé à l'interdire continuent pour une large part d'associer le port du voile aux représentations remontant à l'époque coloniale qui en faisaient un outil d'oppression et d'asservissement. Le sous-texte qui accompagn…
Political science (21 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Islamic Studies and History (16 works) · Law (14 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Economics (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender (9 works) · Islam (7 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (6 works)