Description: ""Coming of Age in Iran" explores poverty and the struggle for dignity and the impact that they have on Iran's youth population"--
Brief description: Manata Hashemi is the Farzaneh Family Assistant Professor of Iranian Studies at the University of Oklahoma and the co-editor of Children in Crisis: Ethnographic Studies in International Contexts.
Review Quotes: "The major contribution of Hashemi's book lies in a vast spectrum of examples unfolding the mechanisms through which the low-income youth, on the one hand, internalize the conformity versus performance game; and, on the other hand, redefine the meaning of dignity beyond its immediate connection with capital accumulation. By putting the moral self at the core of its analysis, Coming of Age in Iran adds further nuances to the literature on bottom-up responses to economic deprivation ... the stories presented in the book are a thought-provoking invitation to reassess the value of shifting and evolving subjectivities for understanding broader social transformations."-- "Iranian Studies"