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23 mar 2023 · Abstract. This article explores the manifold lineages of crisis and revolt currently afflicting the Islamic Republic of Iran, most recently bursting forth in the 2022/2023 national uprisings where women-led mass protests and forceful rejection of mandatory veiling laws captured global attention.
The Islamic Revolution of 1979 brought seismic changes to Iran, not least for women. One area that has come under scrutiny is the way women dress and wear their hair - the old Shah, in the...
26 cze 2023 · Today’s Iranian women that are determined to change the social norms imposed by legislation dating back to 1979 enjoy far broader social support.
23 kwi 2024 · On International Women’s Day in 1979, only a month after the revolution, women protested on the streets of Tehran at the announcement of a law making the wearing of the veil mandatory. Their objections fell on deaf ears.
29 wrz 2022 · For some 40 years following the Feb. 11, 1979, Iranian Revolution, when Ayatollah Khomeini came to power and overthrew the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, people have been rising up...
5 gru 2022 · The compulsory hijab has become the symbol of gratuitous state oppression bearing down most directly on Iran’s women. Yet, unlike earlier protests, these gained broad public support among rich and poor, urban and rural, young and old, female and male.
26 cze 2023 · Today’s Iranian women that are determined to change the social norms imposed by legislation dating back to 1979 enjoy far broader social support. Recent events show how they have become active agents in pursuit of their rights, and seek to drive change even in the absence of a political transformation.
