Chapters: Mahnaz Afkhami, Valentine Moghadam, Niloofar Beyzaie, Golbarg Bashi, Roya Toloui, Shahla Sherkat, Zahra Eshraghi, Homa Darabi, Zandokht Shirazi, Bahareh Hedayat. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 38. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Mahnaz Afkhami ( ), is Founder and President of Women's Learning Partnership (WLP). She is also the Executive Director of Foundation for Iranian Studies and former Minister of Women's Affairs of Iran. She founded the Association of Iranian University Women and served as Secretary General of the Women's Organization of Iran prior to the Islamic revolution. Living in exile in the United States, Afkhami has been an advocate of women's rights for more than three decades, having founded and headed several international non-governmental organizations focused on advancing the status of women. Afkhami has lectured and published extensively on the international womens movement, women's human rights, women in leadership, women and technology, and women's participation in civil society building and democratization. Her books have been translated in multiple languages and distributed internationally. Afkhami was born in 1941 in Kerman. She was the eldest of three children. She grew up in the large mansion of her grandparents with 20 to 30 members of her extended family. On her father's side, Afkhami belongs to the Qajar royal family and the Sheikhi branch of Shi'ite Islam. When Afkhami was eleven, her mother, Ferdows Naficy, separated from her father. In 1955 Afkhami came to the United States with her mother, first in Seattle and San Francisco, and later in Boulder, Colorado, where she received an MA. She married at 17 and raised a son. By the age of 17, she had joined a trade union and successfully challenged a breach of her rights as a worker when her...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=11326050