A transnational feminist inquiry on family and divorce law in contemporary Iran

The methods within my thesis use a transnational, political, and feminist analysis to study divorce practices and family law within Iran since the rise of the Islamic Revolution in 1979. This thesis examines Iranian Civil Codes that are structural within Iranian family courts, while providing a history of political invasions that have led to changes in traditions within Iran after the seventh century Arab Muslim Incursion. My materials include primary sources of Iranian Civil Codes, and secondary sources by Western and transnational feminist scholars who have studied Iranian women's communication with the Islamic Republic through a societal, political, and economic framework.