Assistant Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania. Author of Frontier Fictions: Shaping the Iranian Nation (Princeton UP, 2000).

Conceiving citizens is to be welcomed as a contribution to a better understanding of how both modern medicine and nationalist concern impacted on women's education, employment, civil and political rights ... The book is well documented, well written, and though it will be of significant interest to specialists in Iranian women's history, it is also recommendable to scholars of modern and contemporary Iranian society and to students of gender and sexuality in the Middle East.

• Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; Part One: Hygiene and Citizenship ; Chapter 1 Healing Iran: Hygiene and Social Change in the Qajar Era ; Chapter 2 Population Politics: Epidemics and the "Crisis" of Midwifery ; Part Two: Marriage, Maternity, and Sexuality ; Chapter 3 From Celibacy to Companionship: The Evolution of Persian Marriages ; Chapter 4 Sexual Mores, Social Lives: Maternalism and Venereal Disease ; Chapter 5 Giving Birth: Modern Nursing and Reproductive Politics ; Chapter 6 Schooling Mothers: Patriotic Education and Women's 'Renewal' ; Chapter 7 Defrocking the Nation: Unveiling and the Politics of Dress ; Part Three: Politics and Reproduction ; Chapter 8 From Mothers to Voters: Suffrage, Literacy, and Family Dynamics ; Chapter 9 Managing Birth: Family Planning and Healthcare ; Chapter 10 Civil Liberties, Civic Wombs: Women in the Islamic Republic ; Epilogue ; Notes ; Bibliography

Assistant Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania. Author of Frontier Fictions: Shaping the Iranian Nation (Princeton UP, 2000).

Conceiving citizens is to be welcomed as a contribution to a better understanding of how both modern medicine and nationalist concern impacted on women's education, employment, civil and political rights ... The book is well documented, well written, and though it will be of significant interest to specialists in Iranian women's history, it is also recommendable to scholars of modern and contemporary Iranian society and to students of gender and sexuality in the Middle East.

• Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; Part One: Hygiene and Citizenship ; Chapter 1 Healing Iran: Hygiene and Social Change in the Qajar Era ; Chapter 2 Population Politics: Epidemics and the "Crisis" of Midwifery ; Part Two: Marriage, Maternity, and Sexuality ; Chapter 3 From Celibacy to Companionship: The Evolution of Persian Marriages ; Chapter 4 Sexual Mores, Social Lives: Maternalism and Venereal Disease ; Chapter 5 Giving Birth: Modern Nursing and Reproductive Politics ; Chapter 6 Schooling Mothers: Patriotic Education and Women's 'Renewal' ; Chapter 7 Defrocking the Nation: Unveiling and the Politics of Dress ; Part Three: Politics and Reproduction ; Chapter 8 From Mothers to Voters: Suffrage, Literacy, and Family Dynamics ; Chapter 9 Managing Birth: Family Planning and Healthcare ; Chapter 10 Civil Liberties, Civic Wombs: Women in the Islamic Republic ; Epilogue ; Notes ; Bibliography

Assistant Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania. Author of Frontier Fictions: Shaping the Iranian Nation (Princeton UP, 2000).

Conceiving citizens is to be welcomed as a contribution to a better understanding of how both modern medicine and nationalist concern impacted on women's education, employment, civil and political rights ... The book is well documented, well written, and though it will be of significant interest to specialists in Iranian women's history, it is also recommendable to scholars of modern and contemporary Iranian society and to students of gender and sexuality in the Middle East.

• Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; Part One: Hygiene and Citizenship ; Chapter 1 Healing Iran: Hygiene and Social Change in the Qajar Era ; Chapter 2 Population Politics: Epidemics and the "Crisis" of Midwifery ; Part Two: Marriage, Maternity, and Sexuality ; Chapter 3 From Celibacy to Companionship: The Evolution of Persian Marriages ; Chapter 4 Sexual Mores, Social Lives: Maternalism and Venereal Disease ; Chapter 5 Giving Birth: Modern Nursing and Reproductive Politics ; Chapter 6 Schooling Mothers: Patriotic Education and Women's 'Renewal' ; Chapter 7 Defrocking the Nation: Unveiling and the Politics of Dress ; Part Three: Politics and Reproduction ; Chapter 8 From Mothers to Voters: Suffrage, Literacy, and Family Dynamics ; Chapter 9 Managing Birth: Family Planning and Healthcare ; Chapter 10 Civil Liberties, Civic Wombs: Women in the Islamic Republic ; Epilogue ; Notes ; Bibliography