Abstract

Preface ix Acknowledgments xvii INTRODUCTION: Human and Cultural Practice 1 CHAPTER ONE: A Genealogy of Rights in Iran 20 CHAPTER TWO: Producing States: Women's Participation and the Dialogics of 42 CHAPTER THREE: Qur'anic Meetings: Doing the Cultural Work 75 CHAPTER FOUR: Courting Rights: Talk in Islamico-Civil Family Court 108 CHAPTER FIVE: Practice and Effect: Writing/Righting the Law 138 CHAPTER SIX: Human Rights: The Politics and Prose of Discursive Sites 166 CONCLUSION: Rights as Exhibition at the Brink of War 200 APPENDIX: The Iranian Marriage Contract 209 Notes 211 Glossary 227 Bibliography 231 Index 251

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