Faculty
Shahla Haeri


Faculty Member

Director, Women's Studies

Associate Professor of Anthropology

shaeri@bu.edu

704 Commonwealth Ave.
Room 101
Boston, MA 02215
Phone: 617-358-2371

Interests:
  • Religion, Law, and Gender Dynamics
  • Iran, Pakistan, and India

Courses:
AN 355: Religious Fundamentalism in the Anthropological Perspective

Publications:

2002 Film: Mrs. President: Women & Political Leadership in Iran, Films for the Humanities & Sciences.

2002 No Shame for the Sun: Lives of Professional Pakistani Women, (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press).

2001 “Sacred Canopy: Love & Sex Under the Veil,” (Translated into 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.

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