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This chapter presents the result of fieldwork, individual and group interviews, and in some cases presents the participant voice. There is a tendency to view Islamic women as victims and their role in society as non-existent. In this chapter, the reader is exposed to an informal, micro and community-based, poverty reduction effort by these women to fill the gap between what the government programs offer and the needs of communities. The focus on the invisible network of Islamic women seeks to highlight invisible, micro and informal, community building and communal care carried out by women.
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The City Council was an idea which was born during Khatami’s era, it was an attempt to bring grass root support for the government and to move toward a more democratic society. These local institutions had people direct participation in the running of the city and its members would be elected. The first City Council was an extremely successful institution and had a major representation of women. By the second round, the optimism had dissipated since the power of the councils was curtailed to some extent.
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Western values, they called it, even though the films were mainly Latin American and Asian.
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Sadagheh cannot be given to Saddat descedants of the Prophet Mohammad.
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The Bazaar is located in the heart of Old Tehran, which is now regarded as a low-income neighborhood, and the merchants do not live there, they live uptown. The Bazaar to some extent has its own community (see Arang Keshavarzian, Bazaar and State in Iran : Politics of the Tehran Marketplace: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007) and its own network.
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Bahramitash, R., Sadegh, A., Sattari, N. (2018). Informal Networks of Religious Women and Social Economy. In: Low-Income Islamist Women and Social Economy in Iran. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52539-0_5
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