Health as a Context for Social and Gender Activism: Female Volunteer Health Workers in Iran  

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Hoodfar, Homa

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Population and Development Review vol. 36 no. 03 (Sep. 2010), page 487-510.
Topik: Health; Social; Gender Activism; Female Volunteer Health Workers; Iran

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Having reserved its pronatalist policies in 1988, the Islamic Republic of Iran implemented one of the most successful family planning programs in the developing world. This archievement, particularly in urban centers, is largely attributable to a large women-led volunteer health worker program for low-income urban neighborhoods. Research in three cities demonstrates that this successful program has had a host of unintended consequences. In a context where citizen mobilization and activism are highly restricted, volunteers have seized this new state-sanctioneds space and successfully negotiated many of the familial, cultural, and state restrictions on women. They have expanded their mandate from one focussed on health activism into one of social, if not political, activism, highlighting the ways in which citizens blur the boundaries of state and civil society inder restrictive political systems prevalent in many of the middle Eastern societies.

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