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Understanding Iran: Everything you Need to Know, from Persia to the Islamic Republic, from Cyrus to Ahmadinejad (review)

The book’s real strength lies in its reckoning with class. It has not been a mystery that Egyptian feminism began as an elite project; nor have elite feminists’ relationship with ruling-class men gone unacknowledged. But Mariscotti’s careful attention to the links between the economic interests of the ruling classes and those of the British administration affords her a critical reading of the actions and agendas of elite women — platforms which, Mariscotti convincingly argues, heretofore have been applauded as feminist but not criticized as elite or hegemonic. What emerges from Mariscotti’s portrayal is a public-feminist culture that excluded more women than it included and that portrayed properly “female” and “feminine” activities in ways that were out of most women’s reach. The book’s weakness lies within the author’s portrayal of the paradigms that she wishes to tear down and to reconstruct. Mariscotti ignored a number of works on women, gender, politics, and the struggle for Egyptian independence (e.g., by Kenneth Cuno, Hanan Kholoussy, Lisa pollard, and Mona Russell) that were published in the period between the completion of Mariscotti’s dissertation — from which this book builds — and the publication of the book itself.The inclusion of those works would have done much to enrich Mariscotti’s discussion of such things as family structures,