Persepolis 

MARQCAT Subject headings (in the column at right) will help identify additional books. Readers are advised to check MARQCAT for circulation status and location as items may be in the Browsing Collection (Raynor 1st level), Raynor Reserves/AV (lower level), or in the Memorial stacks. Books that are checked out may be recalled by clicking on the blue button at the top or bottom of the MARACAT record.   

The Veil Unveiled: The Hijab in Modern Culture Faegheh Shirazi (Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2001)

Veil: Modesty, privacy and resistance Fadwa El Guindi (Oxford, UK ; New York, NY : Berg, c19)

Hijab and American Muslim Women: Creating the Space for Autonomous Selves Rhys H Williams. Sociology of Religion 68 (2007): 269.

Iranian Revolution

1979: Iranian Revolution Peter Edidin. New York Times Upfront. (Apr 6 2009): 24.

Class, politics, and ideology in the Iranian revolution Mansoor Moaddel (New York : Columbia University Press, 1993)

Khomeini's ghost: The Iranian Revolution and the Rise of Militant Islam Con Coughlin (New York: Ecco/Harper Collins Publishers, 2009)

The Islamic republic and the world: global dimensions of the Iranian revolution Maryam Panah (London ; Ann Arbor, MI : Pluto Press, 2007)

 Iran/Iraq War

Iran, Iraq, and the Legacies of War Lawrence G. Potter and Gary G. Sick (New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)

The Iran-Iraq war: Impact and Implications Efraim Karsh (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989)

Women and Girls in Iran

Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran Roya Hakakian (New York : Crown Publishers, 2004)

Persian Girls: A Memoir Nahid Rachlin (New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2006)

Thinking Inside and Outside the Box: Women and Gender in Iran Houri Berberian. Journal of Women's History 21 (2009): 154-161.

Voices from Iran: The Changing Lives of Iranian women Mahnaz Kousha (Syracuse : Syracuse University Press, 2002)

Women in Iran from 1800 to the Islamic Republic Lois Beck and Guity Nashat (Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2004)

Women's Rights in Iran

Islamic Feminism in Iran: Feminism in a New Islamic Context Fereshteh Ahmadi. Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 22 (2006): 33.

Prospects for Feminism in the Islamic Republic of Iran Rebecca Barlow. Human Rights Quarterly 30 (2008) 21.

Courage, Creativity, and Capacity in Iran: Mobilizing for Women's Rights Shaazka Beyerle. Georgetown Journal of International Affairs 9 (2008): 41.

Appendix: Chronology of Events Regarding Women in Iran since the Revolution of 1979 Elham Gheytanchi. Social Research (2000).

The Unfinished Revolution Time Magazine (Apr 2 1979).

Theocracy

Are Non-Theocratic Regimes Possible?  Rémi Brague. Intercollegiate Review 41 (2006): 3.

Eternal Hostility: The struggle between theocracy and democracy Frederick Clarkson ( Monroe, Me. : Common Courage Press, 1997)

Wondering why Satrapi chose the name of the ancient Persian city for her memoir? Here are some resources on Persepolis, the city:

"Persepolis" UNESCO World Heritage Center

"Persepolis" Wikipedia article

and these books in the library's collection

Ancient Persia: from 550 BC to 650 AD, by Joseph Wiesehofer (1996)

Forgotten Enpire: The World of Ancient Persia, ed. by John Curtis and Nigel Tallis (2005)

The Persian Empire: A History, by Lindsay Allen (2005)

The Persians, by Jim, Hicks and Time-Life Books (1975)

While books of collected comics have been around since the 19th century, a new genre developed in the mid-1900s in books that present an extended narrative in a sequence of pictorial images. The term "graphic novel" came into use after the critical success of Will Eisner's semi-autobiographical A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories (1978). Also cited as a landmark in the genre is Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus: A Survivor's Tale (1986).   

The Marquette Libraries have a small collection of graphic novels for the study of contemporary literature and creative writing. To retrieve a list, search by "genre" and enter "graphic novels" in the search box.  Here is a current list. 

Faster Than a Speeding Bullet: The Rise of the Graphic Novel (2004) is a good history of the genre. Paul Gravett's Graphic Novels: Stories to Change Your Life (2005) introduces some of the author's favorites.

The Graphic Novel Silver Anniversary Andrew G. Arnold (Time Magazine, 2003)

Graphic Novel Catches Eyes and Minds of Students Katharine Goodloe (Journal Sentinel Online, 2005)