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
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 |