Name Minoo Moallem | ||
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Books Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Politics of Patriarchy in Iran |
A conversation about women, gender, and Iranian modernity
Minoo Moallem is Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. She was Chair of Gender and Women’s Studies Department at Berkeley from 2008-2010. Her academic specialties are transnational and postcolonial feminist studies, religious nationalism and transnationalism, consumer culture, immigration and diaspora studies, Middle Eastern Studies and Iranian films, cultural politics and diasporas. She is best known for her work on Islamic nationalism and fundamentalism as byproducts of colonial modernity and modernization of patriarchies.
Contents
- A conversation about women gender and Iranian modernity
- CALpool Karaoke Minoo Moallem
- Biography
- Publications
- References
CALpool Karaoke: Minoo Moallem
Biography
She received a BA in Sociology from the University of Tehran, followed by a M.A. in Sociology from the same university. She received a PhD in Sociology from Université de Montréal in 1990, with a thesis "La pluralité des rapports sociaux : similarité et différence: le cas des Iraniennes et des Iraniens au Québec" She then engaged in postdoctoral studies at the University of California at Berkeley. Before coming to Berkeley, she was a Professor in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at San Francisco State University] from 1996 to 2006, during which time she served as Chair of the department from 2001 to 2006.
Publications
She has published articles in feminist journals including Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Feminist Studies, Meridians: feminism, race, and transnationalism, Nimeye Digar, Documentation Sur La Recherche Feministe, "The Scholar $ Feminist Online" and Journal of Feminist Studies of Religion.
Her digital project, "Nation-on-the Move" (with design by Eric Loyer) was published in Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular (Special issue on Difference.