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Authored Books

Rostami-Povey, Elaheh (2010) Iran's Influence: A Religious-political State and Society in its Region. UK: Ashgate.

Rostami-Povey, Elaheh (2010) Women, Work and Islamism, Ideology and Resistance in Iran. 2nd edition. UK: Zed Books.

Rostami-Povey, Elaheh (2007) Afghan Women, Identity and Invasion. London; New Yorks: Zed Books.

Rostami-Povey, Elaheh (1999) Women, work and Islamism: Ideology and Resistance in Iran. London: Zed Books, under her pen name Maryam Poya. Published by Oxford University Press in Pakistan in 2000. Also translated into Farsi and published in Iran under her name Elaheh Rostami by Jamee Iranian, Tehran, Iran in 2001..

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Povey, Tara and Rostami-Povey, Elaheh, eds. (2012) Women, Power and Politics in 21st Century Iran. Farnham: Ashgate.

Book Chapters

Rostami-Povey, Elaheh (2014) 'Afghan Women: Resistance and Struggle in Afghanistan and diasporic communities.' In: Makdisi, Jean, Bayyumi, Nuha and Rida Sidawi, Rafif, (eds.), Arab Feminisms: Gender and Equality in the Middle East. London: I.B. Tauris.

Rostami-Povey, Elaheh (2014) 'Afghanistan.' In: Shahin, Emad El-Din, (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Rostami-Povey, Elaheh (2013) 'Afghanistan.' In: DeLong-Bas, Natana J., (ed.), the Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Rostami-Povey, Elaheh (2013) 'Borrowing and Credit: Women's Contemporary and Historical Practice.' In: DeLong-Bas, Natana J., (ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women. UK: Oxford University Press.

Rostami-Povey, Elaheh (2013) 'Iran's Influence: A Religio-Political State and Society in its Region and in the World.' In: Hooglund, Eric and Stenberg, Leif, (eds.), Navigating Contemporary Iran: Challenging Economic, Social and Political Perceptions. Abingdon; New York: Routledge.

Rostami-Povey, Elaheh (2013) 'Making Women's participation in the MENA Workforce Visible.' In: DeLong-Bas, Natana J., (ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Rostami-Povey, Elaheh (2012) 'Afghan Women's Resistance and Struggle: Gender, Agency, and Identity.' In: Afshar, Haleh, (ed.), Women and Fluid Identities - Strategic and Practical Pathways Selected by Women. London: Palgrave, Macmillan UK, pp. 146-165.

Povey, Tara (2012) 'The Iranian Women’s Movement in its Regional and International Context.' In: Povey, Tara and Rostami-Povey, Elaheh, (eds.), Women, Power and Politics in 21st Century Iran. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, pp. 169-182.

Rostami-Povey, Elaheh (2007) 'Economics: Labor Profiles: Afghanistan.' In: Joseph, Suad, (ed.), Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Culture: Volume 2 Family, Law and Politics,. Leiden University Press: Brill.

Rostami-Povey, Elaheh (2005) 'Trade Unions and Women's NGOs. Diverse Civil Society Organizations in Iran.' In: Eade, Deborah and Leather, A., (eds.), Development NGOs and Labor Unions. Terms of Engagement. Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, pp. 303-319.

Rostami-Povey, Elaheh (2004) 'Civil Society in Afghanistan.' In: Joseph, Suad, (ed.), Family, Law and Politics, Encyclopaedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. Leiden: Brill, pp. 40-41.

Rostami-Povey, Elaheh (2004) 'Migration: Labour and Remittances: Afghanistan.' In: Joseph, Suad, (ed.), Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Culture: Volume 2 Family Law and Politics. Leiden: Brill.

Rostami-Povey, Elaheh (2004) 'Political-Social Movements, Unions and Workers' Movements: Iran.' In: Joseph, Suad, (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Vol 2 Family, Law and Politics. Leiden: Brill, 669 - 670.

Rostami-Povey, Elaheh (2004) 'Women in Afghanistan, Passive Victims of the Borga or active social Participants?' In: Afshar, Haleh and Eade, Deborah, (eds.), Development, Women, and War: Feminist Perspectives, A Development in Practice Reader. Oxford: Oxfam GB, pp. 172-187. (Development in practice reader)

Rostami-Povey, Elaheh (2004) 'Women in Afghanistan, Passive Victims of the Borga or active social Participants?' In: Afshar, Haleh and Eade, Deborah, (eds.), Development, Women, and War: Feminist Perspectives. Oxford: Oxfam.

Journal Article

Rostami-Povey, Elaheh (2007) 'Gender, Agency and Identity, the Case of Afghan Women in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran.' Journal of Development Studies, 43 (2). pp. 294-311.

Rostami-Povey, Elaheh (2007) 'Afghan Refugees in Iran, Pakistan, the U.K., and the U.S. and Life after Return: A Comparative Gender Analysis.' Iranian Studies, 40 (2).

Rostami-Povey, Elaheh (2005) 'Women and Work in Iran.' State of nature: an online journal of radical ideas (Autumn).

Rostami-Povey, Elaheh (2004) 'Trade Unions and Women's NGOs in Iran.' Development in Practice, 14 (1/2). pp. 254-266.

Rostami-Povey, Elaheh (2003) 'Women in Afghanistan: Passive Victims of the borga or Active Social Participants?' Development in Practice, 13 (2-3). pp. 266-77.

Rostami-Povey, Elaheh (2001) 'Feminist Contestations of Institutional Domains in Iran.' Feminist Review, 69. pp. 44-72.

Monographs and Working Papers

Rostami-Povey, Elaheh (2009) The 2009 Uprising in Iran: The Need to Dispel Prevailing Misconceptions. London: Centre for Development Policy and Research, Development Viewpoint 39.

Book Reviews

Rostami-Povey, Elaheh (2013) 'Review: Globalizing Afghanistan: Terrorism, War, and the Rhetoric of Nation Building by Zubeda Jalalzai and David Jefferess and Land of the Unconquerable: the Lives of Contemporary Afghan Women by Jennifer Heath, Ashraf Zahedi.' Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 38 (2). pp. 495-498.

Rostami-Povey, Elaheh (2013) 'Review: Veiled employment, Islamism and the political economy of women's employment in Iran by Roksana Bahramitash and Hadi Salehi Esfahani, Syracuse University Press, 2011.' Journal of Gender Studies, 22 (3). pp. 349-351.