Introduction Tehran

Roksana Bahramitash

A chapter in Gender and Entrepreneurship in Iran, 2013, pp 1-20 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract It was a warm spring afternoon when two research assistants and I arrived at a focus group being held in the Molavi neighborhood of Tehran, close to Darvazeh Ghar. Molavi is a part of old Tehran, close to the main bazaar. It is a place with well established, if checkered, social networks, and since the time of the last shah (r. 1941–79), it has been a favorite haunt of drug traffickers and prostitutes. The neighborhood is dominated by migrants from Iranian Azerbaijan, who settled there as entire extended families or even several families from the same villages. They are proud of their heritage, and by living in the vicinity of kin and friends from Azerbaijan, they continue to maintain the strong ties of their premigration pasts. Women play a major role in maintaining these social networks—in fact, they have a vested interest in maintaining them. There are traditional sources of female power—a topic that will be discussed later in relation to female-sphere theory.

Keywords: Social Capital; Gross Domestic Product; United Nations Development Programme; Muslim Woman; Shadow Economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137339232_1

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