Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran: Interior Revolutions of the Modern Era

by Pamela Karimi

Book Overview

Examining Iran's recent history through the double lens of domesticity and consumer culture, Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran demonstrates that a significant component of the modernization process in Iran advanced beyond political and public spheres.

On the cusp of Iran's entry into modernity, the rules and tenets that had traditionally defined the Iranian home began to vanish and the influx of new household goods gradually...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415781833
• ISBN13: 9780415781831
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"