Acknowledgment Glossary Introduction -- Part I. -- Norms, Romance, and the Breakdown of Arranged Urban Marriage -- The Emergence of Independent Women in Iran: A Generational Perspective, Masserat, Amir-Ebrahimi -- Transnational Marriages of Christian Filipinas and Muslim Iranian Men and Social: Experiences of their Biracial Children, Ashraf Zahedi -- Ideological Codes, Multiple Biases, Textbooks, and the Standard Iranian Family: Local and Global Hegemonic Formations of the Ideal Family, Amir Mirfakhraie -- Beyond the Shari'a : ?White Marriage? in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Gholam Reza Vatandoust and Maryam Sheipari -- Part II. -- Online Dating, Hymenoplasty, and Assisted Reproductive Technologies -- Negotiating Intimacy through Social Media: Challenges and Opportunities for Muslim Women in Iran, Vahideh Golzard and Christina Miguel -- Recreating Virginity in Iran: Hymenoplasty as a Form of Resistance, Azal Ahmadi -- Whither Kinship? Assisted Reproductive Technologies and relatedness in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Soraya Tremayne -- Part III. -- Reconstructing Hierarchies: Rural and Tribal Marriages -- How Marriage Changed in Boir Ahmad, 1900-2015, Erika Friedl -- Changing Perceptions and Practices of Marriage among People of Aliabad from 1978 to 2018: New Problems and Challenges, Mary Elaine Hegland -- Changing Established-Outsider Relations? A Case Study of Bakhtiaris in Iran, Behrouz Alikhani -- Epilogue Janet Afary and Roger Friedland.