Table of Contents	5
	Notes on Transliteration	7
	Introduction	9
	Part I: Main Intellectual Trends	25
	Intellectuals and Society in Iran since 1953	25
	The Trajectory of the 1953 Military Coup and the Course of Liberal Islam in Iran: A Sociological Analysis	39
	Constructing and Deconstructing Othering: Polycentrism versus Westoxication in Iran	68
	Part II: The Voices of the Less Visible	97
	Insurmountable Hurdles to the Countering of Patriarchal Gender Discourse under a Clerical Oligarchy? Experiences of (Islamic) Feminists in the Islamic Republic of Iran (1979–2009)	97
	Heirs of Modernity in Rural Iran	120
	Part III: Social Change in the Mirror of Art	139
	The Rebellious Man and the Courageous Woman: Social Criticism and Gender Relations in Iranian Film Production before and after the Islamic Revolution	139
	Between Change and Persistence: Re?? Jul??i’s Short Story Miti-Jenn as a Mirror of Social Developments in Iran	163
	Note on Contributors	185
	Index of Names and Places	187