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House with Open Door (book)

House with Open Door
AuthorKameel Ahmady
GenreResearch study
PublisherEnglish and Persian: Mehri Publication Kurdish and Farsi: Avaye Buf
Publication date
2019

House with Open Door is a book by Kameel Ahmady that examines the social phenomenon of cohabitation, called "white marriage" in Iran, in which couples live together without legally marrying.

The research was conducted in Tehran, Mashhad, and Isfahan, three major Iranian cities. Supervised by Ahmady, a British Iranian anthropologist and researcher, the book investigates the prevalence and nature of white marriage. Field research conducted between 2017 and 2018 forms the basis of the book, which was first published in English and Persian by Mehri Publishing House in 2020.

House with Open Door sheds light on an understudied aspect of family and relationships in Iran's rapidly modernizing society.[1][2][3] Through research and analysis, several key factors that have led to the proliferation of white marriages in urban areas were identified.[4] These include environmental factors such as economic conditions, social structure, and legal and formal frameworks, as well as intervening factors like family conditions, weak surveillance, and living in migration.

The book also highlights the emergence of value and normative changes in people's lifestyles and strategic actions as a central phenomenon driving the spread of white marriage. The consequences of white marriage were found to cause a loss of gender stereotypes, increase in freedom of choice, reluctance to formal marriage, social rejection, lack of support, and fear of prosecution.[5][6][7][8]

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  2. ^ "ازدواج سفید در ایران چند سال به طول می انجامد و بیشتر بین چه گروه هایی رواج دارد؟" [The spread of the phenomenon of white marriage in Iran]. پایگاه خبری جماران (in Persian). Retrieved 2023-04-29.
  3. ^ "هاناخبر" [Unveiling the Kurdistan anthropologist's research on white marriage in Iran]. وب سایت خبری تحلیلی هاناخبر | اخبار ایران و جهان | Hana Khabar News (in Persian). Retrieved 2023-04-29.
  4. ^ "کامیل احمدی. زیر پوست شهر: تحلیل پدیده ازدواج سفید در کلان شهرهای ایران، نشریه علمی مطالعات پژوهشی در علوم انسانی و علوم اجتماعی، شماره 63، تابستان 1399، صفحات 94 – 108" [Analysis of white marriage phenomenon in big cities of Iran. Scientific journal of research studies in humanities and social sciences]. Scientific Journal of Research Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences.
  5. ^ Ahmady, Kameel Et al 2021: House with Open Door A comprehensive research study on white marriage (cohabitation) in Iran. Mehri Publication, London-UK.
  6. ^ "گزارشی از وضعیت ازدواج سفید در ایران | عمر ازدواج سفید یک تا سه سال است" [A report on the status of white marriage in Iran]. همشهری آنلاین (in Persian). 2018-08-14. Retrieved 2023-04-29.
  7. ^ "زن در توسعه و سیاست - عمر «ازدواج‌ سفید» و آمارهایی درباره آن" [The duration of the "white marriage" phenomenon in Iran and statistics about it]. jwdp.ut.ac.ir (in Persian). Retrieved 2023-04-29.
  8. ^ "//en.civilica".

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