Introduction : burying the past : Iranian modernity's marriage to realism
Dismembering and re-membering the beloved : how the Civil Code remade marriage and marriage remade love
Wedding or funeral? : the Family Protection Act and the bride's consent
Ain't I a woman? : domesticity's other
Exhuming the beloved, revising the past : lawlessness and postmodernism
A metaphor for civil society? : marriage and "rights talk" in the Khtamī period
Conclusion : a severed head? : Iranian literary modernity in transnational context.