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Zanan's next gathering is on Sunday January 25th and I am very happy to announce our guest Dr Mary Hegland who came back from Iran, Tajikistan and Afghanistan couple of months ago. Please respond to me jamilehpeace@yahoo.com by Friday Jan 23, if you are planning to attend. Thanks.

WHEN: Sunday January 25

TIME: 1 - 4 PM

LOCATION: Community Room
City of Mountain View Public Library
585 Franklin Street Mountain View, CA 94041

Living in a village near Shiraz for 18 months while conducting her fieldwork in social cultural anthropology, Mary Elaine Hegland was able to observe the Iranian Revolution of 1978-1979 at first hand. In September 2003, after 24 years, Mary was able to return to that same village for two weeks to do some quick research about older women and men, and get caught up on changes since 1979. A professor at Santa Clara University, Dr. Hegland has published about religion and politics, ritual and revolution, women and gender, and aging and the elderly, based on fieldwork in Iran, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Afghanistan, and among Iranian-Americans in the Santa Clara Valley. Here's some info about her talk:

"Grandmothers, Daughters, and Grand-daughters: Iranian Women on
Independent Paths"

Iranian women in the southwestern village of "Aliabad" and Iranian women in general are often looking to gain more independence, anthropologist Mary Hegland found on her recent "zip in and zip out" visit to Iran. Older women, even villagers, prefer to live by
themselves rather than to live with son and daughter-in-law. They like being in charge of their own lives. Granddaughters, too, want more independence. They want to go to school, develop a career, find a way to earn money, and postpone marriage and childbirth. Hegland will talk about gender changes in the village where she started her dissertation fieldwork 25 years ago. If time allows, she will point to women's changing lives in Turkey, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan---where she also conducted research
last year.

DIRECTION: From San Jose, taking 101 North:
Take the CA-237 WEST/MTN VIEW ALVISO RD exit
Merge onto CA-237 West
Turn RIGHT onto West EL CAMINO REAL
Turn RIGHT onto CASTRO ST.
Turn LEFT onto CHURCH ST.
Turn RIGHT onto FRANKLIN ST.

From San Jose, taking 85 North:
Take El CAMINO REAL exit towards Mountain View
Merge onto East EL CAMINO REAL
Turn RIGHT onto CASTRO ST.
Turn LEFT onto CHURCH ST.
Turn RIGHT onto FRANKLIN ST.

From SF, taking 101 South:
Take the SHORELINE BLVD exit towards MOUNTAIN VIEW
Turn RIGHT onto N SHORELINE BLVD.
Turn LEFT onto CHURCH ST.
Turn LEFT onto FRANKLIN ST

From the Main library Entrance, the community room is
to the right.