Women, Faith, and Family takes an insider look into the practices adopted by the E'telaf-I Islamiyyih Zanan (EIZ), a coalition of Iranian women who embrace their faith as an essential component in their pursuit of gender justice. By using EIZ's activism as a lens through which to view women's legal status, Samaneh Oladi tackles complex questions about the limits of female agency, showing how Muslim women's access to and use of religious resources strengthens their position in gender negotiations. Female religious activists not only struggle against patriarchy and conventional paradigms but also cultivate a unique women's jurisprudence that simultaneously challenges Western liberalism and religious orthodoxy. Oladi provides a nuanced portrait of Iranian women's activism and their attempts at reforming their legal status, challenging deep-rooted assumptions in secular feminism that there is an intrinsic discord between women's agency and religion.
