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Conceiving Citizens Women and the Politics of Motherhood in Iranby Firoozeh Kashani-SabetDescriptionWhile Iranian women have most frequently been viewed through the politics of veiling, Conceiving Citizens  interprets modern Iranian politics and society through the history of  women's health and sexuality.  Drawing on archival documents and  manuscript sources from Iran and elsewhere, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet  illustrates how debates over hygiene, reproductive politics, and  sexuality in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries explained  demographic trends and put women at the center of nationalist debates.  Exploring women's lives under successive regimes, she chronicles the  hygiene campaigns that cast mothers as custodians of a healthy  civilization; debates over female education, employment, and political  rights; government policies on contraception and population control; and  tensions between religion and secularism.Features                         Breaks new ground in utilizing rare Iranian archival materials about women's health and sexuality.Brings togethersocial history of women and citizenship over two centuries of Iran history.                       