ABSTRACT
The first part of this chapter is a brief overview of the history of prose written by Iranian women from Qajar times up to the Iranian Revolution. The second part of the article focuses in particular on the literature written after the revolution of 1978–79, and analyses themes and styles expressed by the leading women prose writers of contemporary Iran. The chapter explores the relation ‘woman-literature-society’ in contemporary Iran, and aims to offer a new perspective on a model of post-modern Islamic society in which traditional and modern cultural models are intertwined by women.
