Afshar, Haleh <br/><br/>
Competing interests: democracy, Islamification and women politicians in Iran 

 -  2002 
 - p.109-18. 
 - Jan 
<br/><br/> It is contention of this article that women parliamentarians in Iran have benefited from the democratic process and have, in effect, presented an important political opposition, whose impact on policy and legislation has been considerably greater than the sparse numbers of seats they have had.  Part of the reason for their success lies in their ability to collaborate across the secular/Islamic divide and to locate their demands centrally within the Islamic discourse. - Reproduced. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Politicians - Iran<br/>Women in politics - Iran<br/>Women in politics