Acknowledgment
Glossary
IntroductionP
art I. Norms, Romance, and the Breakdown of Arranged Urban MarriageThe Emergence of Independent Women in Iran: A Generational Perspective,
Masserat, Amir-EbrahimiTransnational Marriages of Christian Filipinas and Muslim Iranian Men and Social: Experiences of their Biracial Children, Ashraf ZahediIdeological Codes, Multiple Biases, Textbooks, and the Standard Iranian Family: Local and Global Hegemonic Formations of the Ideal Family, Amir MirfakhraieBeyond the
Shari’a: “White Marriage” in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Gholam Reza Vatandoust and Maryam Sheipari
Part II. Online Dating, Hymenoplasty, and Assisted Reproductive TechnologiesNegotiating Intimacy through Social Media: Challenges and Opportunities for Muslim Women in Iran, Vahideh Golzard and Christina MiguelRecreating Virginity in Iran: Hymenoplasty as a Form of Resistance, Azal AhmadiWhither Kinship? Assisted Reproductive Technologies and relatedness in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Soraya Tremayne
Part III. Reconstructing Hierarchies: Rural and Tribal Marriages
How Marriage Changed in Boir Ahmad, 1900-2015, Erika Friedl
Changing Perceptions and Practices of Marriage among People of Aliabad from 1978 to 2018: New Problems and Challenges, Mary Elaine Hegland
Changing Established-Outsider Relations? A Case Study of Bakhtiaris in Iran, Behrouz Alikhani
Epilogue
Janet Afary and Roger Friedland