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Some female participants in the war began serving the state as part of the security apparatus of the Islamic Republic. Also, some women who were nurses, doctors, first responders, social workers, pilots, and propagandists/ journalists continued working for the state as their employer.
8 lis 2023 · Iranian women and gender in the Iran-Iraq War. November 8, 2023 | 4:30PM. Please join us on Wednesday, November 8th, at 4:30pm, in Pick 218 for a presentation by Mateo M. Farzaneh. The title of the presentation is "Iranian women and gender in the Iran-Iraq War".
During the height of the Iran-Iraq War, women made up a large portion of the domestic workforce in Iran, replacing men who were fighting, injured, or dead. [9] Women also played significant roles in lobbying for military veteran pension plans after the war. [10]
Women are a small minority of the detainees/internees visited but as most prisons are designed to house male detainees, the ICRC closely monitors their speci˛c needs during visits. In addition to adequate conditions and treatment, women in deten-
1 lis 2021 · Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh’s book is a meticulous chronicle of the lives of Iranian women who contributed to the eight-year war between their country and Iraq. Overcoming prescribed gender roles and cultural taboos, many women flocked to the war zone to be part of what they believed a “holy defense.”
2 wrz 2014 · Some roles of Iranian women in that conflict included: Participation in military, economic and social mobilization; logistic support in the headquarters on the front lines; taking care of their families and moral support for men who were dispatched to the front; migration from war-zones and becoming familiar with other social environments; and ...
Ethnographic research on the Iran-Iraq war and its legacies is scarce, especially when it comes to the role of women. Showing the interplay of patriotism and Islam in pious women's decisions to defend Iran at wartime, Farzaneh fills many gaps in Iranian Studies.
