To what extent do women accept, adjust and challenge the intersecting and shifting relations
of cultural, political and religious discourses that organize their (sexual) lives? Seeking to …

Iran is a country with an established coherence of Islamic teachings and laws (Shari'a) with
state laws and government policies. Iran has contributed growing numbers of immigrants to …

The primary objective of this chapter is to explore the changes in Iranian women's gender
identity that may occur following their migration to Australia. I explore the hypothesis that the …

Walking and 'haunting space'have become means of political and aesthetic resistance to the
invisibility or inhospitality that women face in the public sphere. Power imbalance in spatial …

This study was purposed to investigate the roles of gender and age on psychological
hardiness, emotional intelligence, self-efficacy and happiness in an Iranian sample …

My dissertation focuses on developing a feminist arts-based research methodology in which
I explore how Augmented Reality (AR) portrait painting is translated and conceptualized …

My dissertation focuses on developing a feminist arts-based research methodology in which
I explore how Augmented Reality (AR) portrait painting is translated and conceptualized …

This chapter shows two tendencies within Sweden's Muslim communities. It is so-called
radicalization of the political climate of many Muslim communities, which have become …

Sexuality and gender have come to serve as measures for cultural belonging in discussions
of the position of Muslim immigrants in multicultural Western societies. While the acceptance …

The purpose of this research was to explore the life experiences and challenges of second
generation Iranian-Americans by examining relations between ethnicity, acculturation, and …