Haideh Moghissi
Feminist theorist and author; Professor of sociology, York University.
Last Contribution:
Honour Killing: Persistence of an Ugly Tradition
Contributor Biography
Dr. Moghissi is a Professor of sociology and women’s studies at York University in Toronto. She was a founder of the Iranian National Union of Women and member of its first executive and editorial boards, before leaving Iran in 1984. She has published in such journals as: Signs, Monthly Review, Humanity and Sociology, Third World Quarterly, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Socialist Register, Global Dialogue, Comparative Family Studies and International Review of Comparative Public Policy.
Her books include: Muslim Diaspora, Gender, Culture and Identity (editor) London: Routledge (2006); The three volume Women and Islam: Critical Concepts in Sociology (editor) London: Routledge (2005); winner of Choice Outstanding Book Award Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism: The Limits of Postmodern Analysis, London: Oxford University Press (2000) and Zed Press (1999); and Populism and Feminism in Iran :Women's Struggle in a Male-Defined Revolutionary Movement, London: Macmillan Press and New York: St.Martin's Press (1994). Her most recent co-authored volume is Diaspora by Design: Muslims in Canada and Beyond, University of Toronto Press (2009).
She has served as Coordinator, Certificate for Anti-Racist Research and Practice (CARRP) and Chair of the Executive Committee of Centre for Feminist Research at York University and also as a member of the executive committee of the Centre for Refugee Studies. She has served as a commentator on Iran and women in the Middle East on the BBC World Service, CBC, Radio France, and Voice of America, and on the Editorial and Advisory Boards of The Journal of Comparative Public Policy, the Rutledge Women and Politics Series, "Resources for Feminist Research" and "Women in Struggle and Equality (Tehran)."
She was the Director of an international comparative research project, “Diaspora, Islam and Gender," funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) and is the Co-Principal Investigator of two Ford Foundation research projects on Muslim diasporas, identity, gender, and cultural resistance.
