Doing Gender Research as a 'Gendered Subject': Challenges and Sparks of Being a Dual-Citizen Woman Researcher in Iran

This contribution is based on the difficulties, challenges and stimuli faced during the months of field research conducted in Tehran for my PhD dissertation on transformations of gender roles in Iran. Therefore, it means to rethink the three main issues I faced during my ethnography in in a context...

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Published inAnthropology of the Middle East Vol. 14; no. 2; pp. 130 - 142
Main Author Ghaffari, Rassa
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Berghahn Books, Inc 22.12.2019
Subjects
Accentuation
Citizenship
Cultural identity
Epistemology
Ethnography
Field study
Fieldwork
Gender
Gender identity
Gender roles
Identity
Sex role
Sex roles
Social classes
Social dynamics
Social systems
Women
Middle East
Iran
Italy
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Summary:This contribution is based on the difficulties, challenges and stimuli faced during the months of field research conducted in Tehran for my PhD dissertation on transformations of gender roles in Iran. Therefore, it means to rethink the three main issues I faced during my ethnography in in a context characterized by peculiar social and cultural dynamics: the difficulties and advantages related to my condition of a woman who works on a topic full of nuances and complexities; my 'accented identity' as a researcher born and raised abroad but Iranian by affiliation; and the methodological and epistemological implications and dilemmas arisen in attempt to apply techniques and theories learned mainly within the Western academia.
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ISSN:1746-0719
1746-0727
DOI:10.3167/ame.2019.140209