Valentine Moghadam - Research, Influence and Ideology

Research, Influence and Ideology

Currently, Valentine Moghadam’s areas of research include "globalization, transnational feminist networks, civil society and citizenship, and women’s employment in the Middle East". Her experiences growing up in Iran influenced her political views, which became more defined in her university education. The Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the continued Islamization in Iran following the revolution made an imprint on Moghadam’s ideology. This situation in Iran, and the situation for Iranian women that resulted, sparked her interest in gender politics. Following the conferral of her Ph.D., Moghadam turned her attention to women-in-development, and her identification as a feminist strengthened. Today, the global issues that most concern Moghadam are “the adverse effects of economic globalization, militarism,” and the fight for "women's rights everywhere, but especially in Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan".

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