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Women and Globalization in the Arab Middle East: Gender, Economy and Society (review)

was renewed, because of the political situation in Iran and the desire of the Iranian people to nationalize the oil company, Americans working in Iran were discouraged from taking their families to Iran.” It would have been interesting to have some brief note on the internal Iranian political situation as viewed perhaps through a classic analytical nongovernmental secondary source such as Roy Mottahedeh’s The Mantle of the Prophet. The suggestions above of a few paths not traveled in Helen of Tūs should be seen as invitational rather than deeply critical. Helen will be of particular invitational interest to those concerned with women’s studies, women’s health initiatives in Iran, Iranian ethnographic landscapes viewed through Helen’s eyes, considerations of driven, displaced, and often alienated women caught in particular throes of circumstance straddling the West and the Middle East, women writing about mothers (not least with complicating filters of US-Iranian perspectives on gender roles), and issues of an Iranian-American family forged before World War II. Although there is much not addressed in this book about the world that swirled around the Bakhtiars, there is plenty here to tantalize the academic reader for whom the challenge will be to contemplate this family in the context of more academically-oriented initiatives in relevant disciplines. In the end, Helen’s story is a selective tribute by one remarkable Iranian-American family to the trials, successes, and tragedies of an effort to love in the tumultuous twentieth century across great divides of personality, geography, and culture. We should all be grateful that the Bakhtiars have harvested and preserved so much material and have made the effort to share it so intelligently, sensitively, openly, and lyrically with a wide readership.