Women's Studies Program

Boston University

Shahla Haeri's Articles and Essays

Articles

2008 Sacred Canopy: Love & Sex Under the Veil,” in Journal of Iranian Studies, forthcoming

2007 “Resiliency & Posttraumatic Recovery in Cultural and Political Contexts: Pakistani Women’s Strategies for Survival.” In Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma, 14(1&2): 2007, 287-304

2006 “Iran’s Invisible Candidates,” Harvard Divinity Bulletin. Winter 91-95

2003 “’Muslim Women’ in the Mirror of the Other.” (in Persian). In Zanan. Vol.12, No.100

2002 “Sacred Canopy: Love & Sex Under the Veil,” (Translated in Persian) in Iran Nameh: A Persian Journal of Iranian Studies, Vol. XIX, No.3, pp. 337-47, Summer

2001 "Subliminal Sex in Iranian Cinema." Anthropology News, March

1996 "Fundamentalism & Women's Rights in Iran & Pakistan" (in Persian), Iran Nameh, Vol.XIV, No.1, Winter

1995 "Of Feminism & Fundamentalism in Iran and Pakistan," Contention: Debates in Society, Culture, & Sciences, Vol.4, No.3, Spring, pp. 129-149

1993 "Land of Paradoxes," The Friday Times, Lahore, Pakistan, July 22-28, pp.14-15 (used pseudonym)

1992 "Temporary Marriage and the State in Iran: An Islamic Discourse on Female Sexuality," Social Research: An International Quarterly of the Social Sciences, Vol.59, No.1, Spring, pp.201-23

1988 “Poetic Performance in Aligarh, India,” in Par, 38: 10-12, 46-47

1987 "Ma'sumih" (short story in Persian), Nimeye Digar, London, No.5, Winter pp.70-75

1986 "Ambivalence Toward Women In Islamic Law and Ideology," The Middle East Annual Vol.5, pp.45-67

1986 "Power of Ambiguity: Cultural Improvisations on the Theme of Temporary Marriage," Iranian Studies, Vol.19, No.2, pp.123-154

Encyclopedia and Dictionary Entries

2006 “Mot’a ii: Since 1979,” in Encyclopedia Iranica

2004 “Temporary Marriage,” Encyclopedia of the Qur’an, ed. Jane D. McAuliffe. Brill

1997 "Divorce," Dictionary of Anthropology, ed. Thomas J. Barfield, Blackwell, 1997, pp.126-27

1995 "Mut'ah," The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, ed. John L. Esposito, New York: Oxford University Press, Vol.3, pp.21-213

1995 "Social Reform in the Middle East," The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, ed. John L. Esposito, New York: Oxford University Press, Vol.4, pp. 335-339

Books & Film Reviews

2005 The Ladies Room by Mahnaz Afzali (Color 2003, 55 minutes).
Iranian Journey by Maysoon Pachachi (Color, 2003, 54 minutes).
Women Like Us by Persheng Sadegh-Vaziri (Color, 2003, 60 minutes).
Review for Journal for Middle East Women’s Studies, Vol.1 (2): 157-162

2003 Inside Iran: Women’s Lives (Jane Howard), Women’s Review of Books, April, pp10-11

2001 Boundaries of Faith: Geographical Perspectives on Religious Fundamentalism, (Roger W. Stump), Religious Studies Review. V.27, No.2, April, pp.147-48

1996 The Vanguards of the Islamic Revolution: The Jama'at-i Islami of Pakistan, (Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr), Muslim World, V.LXXXVI, No.3-4, pp.378-383

1996 Pious Passion: The Emergence of Modern Fundamentalism in the United States and Iran, (Martin Riesebrodt), International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, pp.116-18

1995 Marriage on Trial: A Study of Islamic Family Law, (Ziba Mir-Hosseini), International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, V.27 August 1995:350-52, pp.350-52

1998 Ziba Mir-Hosseini’s Response to Shahla Haeri’s Review of Marriage on Trial, A Study of Islamic Family Law in Iran and Morocco. International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. V.30, No.3, August, pp.469-71

1998 Haeri’s Reply to Mir-Hosseini. International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies,
V.30, No.3, August, pp.471-72

1993 A Persian Requiem, (Simin Danishvar), Digest of Middle East Studies, Vol.2, No.2, Spring, pp.4-6

1990 Women of Deh Koh: Lives in an Iranian Village, (Erika Friedl), Iranian Studies, Vol.24, No.1-4, pp.94-95

Books in Progress

Religion, Politics, and Women in Iran: Edging Toward Democracy?

Monographs (unpublished)

2006 Gender Studies Institute: A Proposal, Kabul, Afghanistan

2003 Contested Terrains: Gender Justice and Citizenship in South Asia, Paper commissioned by International Development Resource Center (IDRC), Ottawa, Canada.

1990 Ritual of Mourning: Devotion to the Imam Among the Shi'is in the Indo-Pakistan Subcontinent, London: Institute of Ismaili Studies

1989 The Baluch Report. Geneva, United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees, Technical Support System

Book chapters

Forthcoming “Religion, Women, and Political Agency in Iran,” To be published in Contemporary Iran: Studies in Society, Economy, and Politics Ed. By Ali Gheissari. Oxford University Press

Forthcoming “Fascination with ‘Difference:’ Democratizing Anthropology, Conducting Fieldwork Among Equals,” Ed. By Sadad Ahmed, Oxford University Press, Karachi, Pakistan

2007 “Resiliency & Posttraumatic Recovery in Cultural and Political Contexts: Pakistani Women’s Strategies for Survival.” Reprinted in Sources and Expressions of Resiliency in Trauma Survivors: Ecological Theory, Multicultural Practice. Edited by Mary R. Harvey & Pratyusha Tummala-Narra. 2007, 287-304

2004 “Obedience versus Autonomy: Women and Fundamentalism in Iran and Pakistan," Reprinted in The Globalization Reader, Edited by Frank J. Lechner & John Boli. Second Edition. Blackwell Publishing

2000 “Temporary Marriage & the State in Iran: An Islamic Discourse on Female Sexuality,”Reprinted in Women and Sexuality in Muslim Societies. Ed. By Pinar Ilkkaracan, Istanbul, Turkey: A Publication of Women for Women’s Human Rights – New Ways, 343-62.

1999 “Women’s Body, Nation’s Honor: Rape in Pakistan,” Hermeneutics and Honor: Negotiating Female Public Space in Islamicate Societies. Ed. By S. Afsaruddin, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 55-69 (slightly revised version of Politics of Dishonor, below)

1996 "Mut'a: Regulating Sexuality and Gender Relations in Postrevolutionary Iran," Islamic Legal Interpretation: Muftis and Their Fatwas, A Casebook, eds. M. Khalid Masud, David Powers, and Brinkley Messick., Cambridge: Harvard University Press, pp.251-61

1995 "Politics of Dishonor: Rape and Power in Pakistan," Faith & Freedom: Women's Human Rights in the Muslim World, ed. M. Afkhami,  London: I.B. Tauris,  pp.161-174

1994 "An Islamic Discourse on Female Sexuality: Temporary Marriage in Postrevolutionary Iran, "In the Eye of the Storm: Women in Postrevolutionary Iran,  eds. M. Afkhami and E. Friedl, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press (slightly revised version of Temporary Marriage and State in Iran, above), pp.98-114

1993 "Women & Temporary Marriage" (Translated in Urdu), in Women: Past & Present, ed. Kishwar Naheed, Sang-i Mill  Publications: Lahore, Pakistan, pp.321-337
1991 “A Brief History of Anthropology of Women in Iran,” in The Second Proceedings for Iranian Women Studies Foundation, 2: 46-68, Summer

1993 "Obedience versus Autonomy: Women and Fundamentalism in Iran and Pakistan," Fundamentalism and Society: Reclaiming the Sciences, the Family, and Education.  eds.M.E. Marty and R.S. Appleby, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp.181-213

1990 "Divorce in Contemporary Iran: A Male Prerogative in Self-Will,"  Islamic Family Law,  eds. C. Mallat and J. Connors.  London: Graham and Trotman, pp.55-67

1983 "The Institution of Mut'a Marriage in Iran: A Formal and Historical Perspective,"  Women and Revolution in Iran,  ed. G. Nashat,  Westview Press, pp.231-51
1980 "Women, Law and Social Change in Iran," Women in Contemporary Muslim Societies, ed. J.I. Smith, Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, pp.209-234