Dr. Norma Claire Moruzzi’s New Book! Tied Up In Tehran: Women, Social Change, and the Politics of Daily Life in Postrevolutionary Iran
Introduction
The GWS Program celebrates Dr. Norma Claire Moruzzi, Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Political Science, on her new book, a vital contribution to feminist scholarship that deepens our understanding of women’s lives, social change, and the politics of the everyday. Her work advances Gender and Women’s Studies by expanding how we think about knowledge, agency, and lived experience in feminist inquiry. Her scholarship reminds us that the everyday is always political!
Dr. Norma Claire Moruzzi’s new book, Tied Up in Tehran, is both a richly interdisciplinary study of ordinary life in Iran since the 1979 revolution and a critical intervention in political theory debates on knowledge and method. Rooted in over a decade of fieldwork, and sparked by her surreal experience of being served tangerines during a home invasion in Tehran, the book centers the voices and experiences of women, young people, artists, and activists—in homes, workplaces, and public spaces. These stories of food and family, film and politics, shopping and crime reckon with the past, reveal resilient democratization in the present, and offer glimpses of a more just and possible future. With lucid and engaging writing, Dr. Moruzzi models a feminist, ethically engaged mode of study, reminding us that everyday life is contradictory, surprising, and always alive with political promise.
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