Journal Articles

Selected Refereed Journal Articles

Hoodfar, Homa. 2013. “Sexuality and Politics in Indonesia: How Democracy Failed Women,” Dossier: Journal of Women Living Under Muslim Laws (special issue) Sexuality, Culture and Society in Muslim Contexts (32:125-139)

Hoodfar, Homa. 2010. “Islamic Politics and Women’s Quest for Gender Equality in Iran” in 2010 Special Issue, Third World Quarterly: The Unhappy Marriage of Religion and Politics: Problems and Pitfalls for Gender Equality. Vol. 31(6:885-903) (with Shadi Sadr).

Hoodfar, Homa. 2010. “Health as a Context for Social and Gender Activism: Female Volunteer Health Workers in Iran,”Population and Development Review 36:3 (487-510) September.

Hoodfar, Homa. 2009. “Activism under the radar: volunteer women health workers in Iran,” Middle East Report 250, Spring , (special issue on ‘The Islamic Revolution at 30) (pp. 54-60).

Hoodfar, Homa. 2009. “Against All Odds: The Building of a Women’s Movement in the Islamic Republic of Iran 1979-2007,”Development 52:8 (1-11)

Hoodfar, Homa. 2007. “Defying exclusion: Afghan refugee youth reading on the Islam trans-ethnic ideology in their struggle against discrimination in Iran” in Gotegow (Dialogue) No.50: 28-49. (in Farsi)

Hoodfar, Homa. 2007. “Women, Religion and the ‘Afghan education movement’ in Iran,” Journal of Development Studies Vol. 43 (no. 2) (265-293).

Hoodfar, Homa. 2004. “Families on the Move: The Changing Role of Afghan Refugee Women in Iran,” Hawwa: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World Vol. 2:2 (141-171).

Hoodfar, Homa. 2003. “Transnational Networking among Women Activists and Women’s Organizations In the Middle East.” Farzaneh: Journal of Women’s Studies, Issue 11:29-52. (in Farsi)

Hoodfar, Homa. 2000. “The Politics of Population Policy in the Islamic Republic of Iran.” Studies in Family Planning,  Vol. 31:1(1-17). (With Samad Assadpour)

Hoodfar, Homa. 1999. “In the absence of legal equity: Mahr and marriage negotiation in Egyptian low-income communities” Arab Studies Quarterly Vol. 22: (98-111)

Hoodfar, Homa. 1998.”Muslim Women on the Threshold of the Twenty-first Century””Dossier: Journal of Women Living Under Muslim Laws; No. 21:112-125.

Hoodfar, Homa. 1997. “The Impact of Male Migration on Domestic Budgeting: Egyptian Women Striving for an Islamic Budgeting Pattern.” Journal of Comparative Family Studies 28:2 (74-98)

Hoodfar, Homa. 1996. “Bargaining with Fundamentalism: Women and the Politics of Population Control in Iran.” Reproductive Health Matters, November, 8:30-40.

Hoodfar, Homa. 1994. “The Veil in Their Minds and on Our Heads: The Persistence of Colonial Images of Muslim Women.” Resources for Feminist Research, 22:1&2 (5-18).

Hoodfar, Homa. 1994, “Devices and Desires: Population Policy and Gender Roles in the Islamic Republic.” Middle East Research Report 24(5): 11-17.

Hoodfar, Homa. 1993. “The Impact of Egyptian Male Migration on Urban Families: Feminization of the Egyptian Families or Reaffirmation of Traditional Gender Roles?”Sociological Bulletin, Journal of the Indian Sociological Society, 42(1&2):114-135, Fall 1993.

Hoodfar, Homa. 1992. “Feminist Anthropology and Critical Pedagogy: Anthropology of Classrooms’ Excluded Voices.” Canadian Journal of Education 17(3):303-320. Reprinted in Teachers’ Handbook, Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation.

Hoodfar, Homa. 1990. “Survival Strategies in Low Income Households in Cairo.” Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies 8(4):22-41,

Hoodfar, Homa. 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993. “Background to the Feminist Movement in Egypt.” Le Bulletin 9:2 Reprinted in Dossier: Journal of Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) 7/8. Reprinted in Al-Raida 10(57).

Hoodfar, Homa. 1985. “Women’s Movements in Egypt.” Nimah-e-Digar, 1(4):42-58 (in Farsi)