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Iranian Women's Quest for Self-Liberation Through
IRANIAN WOMEN’S QUEST FOR SELF-LIBERATION THROUGH THE INTERNET AND SOCIAL MEDIA: AN EMANCIPATORY PEDAGOGY TANNAZ ZARGARIAN A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY GRADUATE PROGRAM IN EDUCATION YORK UNIVERSITY TORONTO, ONTARIO December 2019 © [Tannaz Zargarian, 2019] i Abstract This dissertation examines the discourse of body autonomy among Iranian women. It approaches the discourse of body autonomy by deconstructing veiling, public mobility, and sexuality, while considering the impact of society, history, religion, and culture. Although there are many important scholarly works on Iranian women and human rights that explore women’s civil rights and freedom of individuality in relation to the hijab, family law, and sexuality, the absence of work on the discourse of body autonomy—the most fundamental human right—has created a deficiency in the field. My research examines the discourse of body autonomy in the context of liberation among Iranian women while also assessing the role of the internet as informal emancipatory educational tools. To explore the discourse of body autonomy, I draw upon critical and transnational feminist theory and the theoretical frameworks of Derayeh, Foucault, Shahidian, Bayat, Mauss, and Freire. Additionally, in-depth semi-structured interviews with Iranian women aged 26 to 42 in Iran support my analysis of the practice and understanding of body autonomy personally, on the internet, and social media. The results identify and explicate some of the major factors affecting the practice and awareness of body autonomy, particularly in relation to the goal of liberation for Iranian women. -
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Working Paper No. 621 Women’s Voices: The Journey towards Cyberfeminism in Iran Mansoureh Shojaee October 2016 CIRI working paper no. 6 The Civic Innovation Research Initiative (CIRI) is a research program that explores how organizations and individuals mobilize to change their societies. CIRI focuses on how actors co-shape political, economic and cultural trends in pursuing the common interest whilst respecting differences. CIRI is one of the research programs of The International Institute of Social Studies (ISS). The CIRI Working Paper series provides a forum for work in progress that seeks to elicit comments and generate discussion. The series includes academic research by staff, PhD participants, visiting fellows, and research papers by graduate students. CIRI Working Papers are available in electronic format at: www.iss.nl/ciri ISSN 0921-0210 The Institute of Social Studies is Europe’s longest-established centre of higher education and research in development studies. On 1 July 2009, it became a University Institute of the Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR). Post-graduate teaching programmes range from six-week diploma courses to the PhD programme. Research at ISS is fundamental in the sense of laying a scientific basis for the formulation of appropriate development policies. The academic work of ISS is disseminated in the form of books, journal articles, teaching texts, monographs and working papers. The ISS Working Paper Series provides a forum for work in progress which seeks to elicit comments and generate discussion. The series includes academic research by staff, PhD participants and visiting fellows, and award-winning research papers by graduate students. Working Papers are available in electronic format at www.iss.nl Please address comments and/or queries for information to: Institute of Social Studies P.O. -
The Veiling Issue in 20Th Century Iran in Fashion and Society, Religion, and Government
Article The Veiling Issue in 20th Century Iran in Fashion and Society, Religion, and Government Faegheh Shirazi Department of Middle Eastern Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA; [email protected] Received: 7 May 2019; Accepted: 30 July 2019; Published: 1 August 2019 Abstract: This essay focuses on the Iranian woman’s veil from various perspectives including cultural, social, religious, aesthetic, as well as political to better understand this object of clothing with multiple interpretive meanings. The veil and veiling are uniquely imbued with layers of meanings serving multiple agendas. Sometimes the function of veiling is contradictory in that it can serve equally opposing political agendas. Keywords: Iran; women’s right; veiling; veiling fashion; Iranian politics Iran has a long history of imposing rules about what women can and cannot wear, in addition to so many other forms of discriminatory laws against women that violate human rights. One of the most recent protests (at Tehran University) against the compulsory hijab1 was also meant to unite Iranians of diverse backgrounds to show their dissatisfaction with the government. For the most part, the demonstration was only a hopeful attempt for change. In one tweet from Iran [at Tehran University] we read in Persian: When Basijis [who receive their orders from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Supreme Leader of Iran] did not give permission to the students to present a talk against compulsory hijab, the students started to sing together the iconic poem of yar e ,my school friend2. “Basij members became helpless and nervous/ﻳﺎﺭ ﺩﺑﺴﺘﺎﻧﯽ ﻣﻦ dabestani man but the students sang louder and louder. -
The Extremist Influence, Muslim Women & the Hijab, Sex Talk
PBS’ “To The Contrary” The Extremist Influence, Muslim Women & the Hijab, Sex Talk Host: Bonnie Erbe May 13, 2016 Panelists: United States Institute of Peace Associate Vice President of the Center for Middle East and Africa Manal Omar, Founder of Anushay’s Point Anushay Hossain, Former Wall Street Journal Reporter Asra Nomani, President and Founder of the Republican Muslim Coalition Saba Ahmed Bonnie Erbe: Welcome to a special edition of to the contrary: Muslim women in America. First, what lures young Islamic women into terrorism? Then behind the headlines: Is choosing to wear the hijab becoming feminist? And islamic women pushing to discuss sex more openly. [♪♪♪] Erbe: Hello, I'm Bonnie Erbe. Welcome to To The contrary, a discussion of news and social trends from diverse perspectives. In this edition we feature an allMuslim panel.Up first women and global terrorism. More and more women throughout the world are participating in terrorist and extremist groups,and social media is playing a key role in the trendthat information from a reporter for the Voice of America quoting leading experts speaking at the U.S. Institute for Peace. Coercion was cited as the primary reason most women join violent extremist groups, other reasons cited were women seek a sense of identity and belonging. One expert noted young women in the U.S. who belong to families from nonwestern countries tend to suffer from identity crises."Making them vulnerable to alluring social media messages and images from terrorist pitches. We should note "a total of 80 U.S. residents were linked to terrorism motivated by islamic extremism in 2015, that represents a nearly 200 percent increase from the previous yearthat from the AntiDefamation League. -
Upgrading the Women's Movement in Iran
Upgrading the Women’s Movement in Iran: Through Cultural Activism, Creative Resistance, and Adaptability Meaghan Smead Samuels A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in International Studies University of Washington 2018 Committee: Kathie Friedman Sara Curran Program Authorized to Offer Degree: Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies ©Copyright 2018 Meaghan Smead Samuels 2 University of Washington Abstract Upgrading the Women’s Movement in Iran: Through Cultural Activism, Creative Resistance, and Adaptability Meaghan Smead Samuels Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Kathie Friedman Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies The purpose of this research is to identify and analyze the effects of the 2009 post- election state crackdown on the Iranian Women’s Movement. Varying narratives of how the crackdown affected women’s activism necessitate a better understanding as to how this social movement negotiates periods of repression. An examination of accounts and actions by women in Iran reveal this Movement to be fluid, adaptable, and resilient, utilizing different structures, strategies and tactics depending on the current political environment. This study demonstrates the ability of Iranian women to develop creative solutions for public engagement in repressive moments, including through everyday acts of resistance and by practicing cultural activism. Women in Iran work to transform culture in order to impel the state to make changes to discriminatory laws. Prevailing social movement theories help to explain some characteristics of the Iranian Women’s Movement, but a more complex model is required to account for dynamic gendered social movements in non-Western, authoritarian contexts. -
BLACK WAVE: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
ALSO BY KIM GHATTAS The Secretary: A Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of American Power Begin Reading Table of Contents About the Author Copyright Page Thank you for buying this Henry Holt and Company ebook. To receive special offers, bonus content, and info on new releases and other great reads, sign up for our newsletters. Or visit us online at us.macmillan.com/newslettersignup For email updates on the author, click here. The author and publisher have provided this e-book to you for your personal use only. You may not make this e-book publicly available in any way. Copyright infringement is against the law. If you believe the copy of this e-book you are reading infringes on the author’s copyright, please notify the publisher at: us.macmillanusa.com/piracy. In memory of my father, who told me so many stories about before. Where they make a wasteland, they call it peace. —Agricola, Tacitus (Roman senator, d. AD 120) NOTE ON NAMES AND SPELLINGS I have used the most common spellings for well-known names and terms in Arabic, Persian, and Urdu. In other cases, I have used my own transliterations. Translations of Arabic newspaper headlines and text as well as of some of the poetry are my own. Wherever similar concepts exist across the three cultures I cover, I have indicated their equivalent in Arabic. For the concept of the Guardianship of the Jurist introduced by Khomeini, which is mentioned repeatedly, I have used the Arabic transliteration wilayat al-faqih (rather than the Persian velayat-e faqih) throughout the book to avoid confusion. -
Will I Ever Be Enough?
Will I Ever Be Enough? A Marxist Analysis of Women Protesting Obligatory Veiling in the Islamic Republic of Iran Sanaz Ahmadi Religion in Peace and Conflict Master thesis 30 credits Spring 2018 Supervisor: Nils Billing TEOLOGISKA INSTITUTIONEN MARXIST ANALYSIS OF PROTESTS AGAINST OBLIGATORY VEILING IN THE IRI ii MARXIST ANALYSIS OF PROTESTS AGAINST OBLIGATORY VEILING IN THE IRI Abstract The My Stealthy Freedom (MSF) movement on social media has garnered over 1 million likes on Facebook and continues to make headlines in major media outlets. The founder Masih Alinejad routinely speaks out against obligatory veiling in the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI). This study analyses hijab and the MSF movement from a Marxist feminist perspective, evaluating the emancipatory potential for women. The study attempts to untangle Islam from the discourses around the oppression of women to find the material roots of oppression upon which the discourse has been built. The legislation of women’s clothing and women’s bodies has a long history, with just the hijab having been made compulsory and forbidden three times in Iran within the previous century. Through the use of Multimodal Critical Discourse analysis, photographs and videos from the MSF movement are compared to hijab propaganda by the IRI to identify whether the concern of the MSF movement is limited to obligatory hijab, or if it places within the broader movement for women’s emancipation. The results show that despite the visual emphasis on the hijab, the MSF movement has a broader aim emancipating women as expressed by the activists of the movement. Keywords: feminism, Marxism, Iran, hijab, Islam, women’s studies, Middle East, multimodal critical discourse analysis iii MARXIST ANALYSIS OF PROTESTS AGAINST OBLIGATORY VEILING IN THE IRI Background ................................................................................................................ -
To Be Myself and Have My Stealthy Freedom: the Iranian Women's
To be Myself and have My Stealthy Freedom: The Iranian Women’s Engagement with Social Media Gi Yeon KOO1 Research Fellow at Institute of Cross Cultural Studies, Seoul National University, Seoul [email protected] Recibido 17/05/2016. Revisado y aprobado para publicación 18/12/2016. Para citar este artículo: “To be Myself and have My Stealthy Freedom: The Iranian Women’s Engagement with Social Media” en Revista de estudios internacionales mediterráneos, 21, 141-157. Para acceder a este artículo: http://dx.doi.org/10.15366/reim2016.21.011 Abstract The objective of this research is to explore the development of digital social and social movements at the local level through Iranian women’s engagement with social media. In this article, I delve into the cultural and social background of a Facebook page named “My Stealthy Freedom” and the practices of “cyber feminism” in Iran through an anthropological perspective. This online movement finds its value in that it has become a new platform for the women to raise their voices in public online sphere about their human right and freedom. By examining the online and offline discourses about Iranian hijab policy, I aim to understand how Iranian society is creating new spaces for the formation of public discourse. Keywords: My Stealthy Freedom, Facebook, Social Media, Hijab, Iran. 1 This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea Grant funded by the Korean Government (NRF-2013S1A5B5A01030162). REIM Nº 21 (Diciembre 2016) ISSN: 1887-4460 Some try to remind us over and over again that the freedom that is stealth cannot be called freedom at all. -
Iranian Women's Experience of Mandatory Hijab
Iranian Women’s Experience of Mandatory Hijab P.HAMZEHEI Iranian Women’s Experience of Mandatory Hijab: A Case Study of a Campaign on Facebook Pegah Hamzehei Supervisor: Kristina Widestedt Master Thesis for the 2 year master program Media and Communication Studies Stockholm University, JMK - Department of Journalism, Media and Communication December 2014 1 | Page Iranian Women’s Experience of Mandatory Hijab P.HAMZEHEI Abstract The current research is analyzing self-representation of Iranian women in Facebook relating to the mandatory veil case study. Social media is assisting Iranian women to demonstrate their protest against mandatory hijab in various aspects. Iranian women are benefiting from the outstanding features associated with social media, particularly Facebook, such as anonymity, publicity and freedom of speech. Therefore, this study’s target is to investigate and analyze Mandatory Veil Diaries campaign on the Woman=Man Facebook page. There are fifty-nine digital diaries written by women in three different generations. The qualitative research is conducted through thematic analysis and along digital life writing discourse and sexual objectification through a feminism perspective. In this case, study-based theories provided a general comprehension for the researcher to establish an in-depth analysis of the situation and explanation of the role of women in Iran as a developing country. Digital life writing and digital self is mainly focused on the analysis. Digital life writing, after almost three decades, has provided this opportunity to Iranian women to reflect a covert reality in Iranian society. Thematic analysis was performed by gathering data that was extracted from the previous steps. These diaries were then coded and themes were extracted. -
MENA Women News Briefdownload
MENA Women News Brief May 24-June 7, 2017 Egypt May 24: Empowering Egyptian women by turning homes into factories “Talaat’s initiative, called el-Masryeen Awla (Egyptians First), started in 2006 in public parks where he taught women — with or without disabilities — to earn a living through handicrafts. Since 2014, the project has continued in training centers in Cairo and in Giza, which have 200 trainers and 400 trainees.” (Al Monitor) May 26: Who's fed up with sex assaults on Egyptian women? These guys “Munir Tawab admits he added to Egypt’s reputation for catcalling and groping women on the street. But a new movement led by one man to combat sexual harassment — considered the norm in this country — has changed Tawab's actions.” (USA Today) June 1: SBWC receives Egyptian women entrepreneurs “The Sharjah Business Women Council received graduates from ‘Ana Raeda,’ an initiative by Egypt’s Ministry of Trade and Industry’s Small and Medium Enterprise Development. The meeting is in line with the Council’s targets to break barriers and open up communication with entities relevant to empowering women professionally and economically, and aims to strengthen joint cooperation.” (Gulf News) June 1: Editors from Egypt, Kenya receive Women in News Award “Two women from Egypt and Kenya have been awarded the first WAN-IFRA Women in News Editorial Leadership Award in MENA and North Africa, organizers announced Wednesday, May 31. The Women in News Editorial Leadership Award is part of WAN-IFRA’s Gender and Media Freedom Strategy.” (The Daily Star) Iran May 24: Why women—and some men—in Iran are wearing white headscarves on Wednesdays “Masih Alinejad, the woman behind the My Stealthy Freedom phenomenon, has launched a new campaign in her quest to reverse Iran’s compulsory hijab law. -
Revista De Estudios Internacionales Mediterráneos Nº
21 nº Revista de Estudios Internacionales Mediterráneos Taller de Estudios Internacionales Mediterráneos ISSN: 1887-4460 La Revista de Estudios Internacionales Mediterráneos (REIM) (ISSN: 1887-4460) es una publicación digital de acceso abierto dedicada a dar difusión a las últimas investigaciones sobre el mundo arabo-islámico con un enfoque multidisciplinar encuadrado dentro de las Ciencias Sociales Directora Ana Isabel Planet Contreras, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Secretario de redacción Miguel Hernando de Larramendi, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha Comité científico Bernabé López García, Catedrático emérito de Historia del Islam, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Mohamed Berriane, Université Mohamed V-Rabat-Agdal; Richard Gillespie, University of Liverpool; Alejandro Lorca Corrons, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Olivier Roy, European University Institute of Florence; Mohamed Tozy, Ecole de Gouvernance et d’Economie de Rabat; Juan Bautista Vilar, Universidad de Murcia; Laura Feliu Martínez, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona; María Angustias Parejo Fernández, Universidad de Granada; Nilüfer Göle, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, París; Karima Dirèche, Institut de Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain, Túnez; Catherine Miller, Institut de Recherche sur le Monde arabe et musulman, Aix-en-Provence; Abdallah Saaf, Université Mohamed V, Rabat; Mohand Tilmatine, Universidad de Cádiz, Alemania; Maria Cardeira da Silva, Universidade Nova de Lisboa; Charles Hirschkind, Universidad de Berkeley; Mokhtar el Harras, Université Mohamed -
Sarchami Anna 2015 Masters.Pdf (1.171Mb)
RESISTANCE OF HIDDEN VOICES ANNA SARCHAMI A THESIS SUBMITED TO THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF FINE ARTS GRADUATE PROGRAM IN VISUAL ARTS YORK UNIVERSITY TORONTO, ONTARIO APRIL 2015 ©ANNA SARCHAMI, 2015 Abstract An Eastern mind living in a Western society1 in which freedom of speech and equality among members of society are achieved goals benefits from an advantageous perspective from which to express its thoughts. Women play important roles in the creation of any society. It is just the matter of knowing that women, as active members of that society, can be productive. However, in my home country, Iran, most women, mainly from lower and middle classes, do not have the same opportunities as women here in Canada. They are struggling even in their daily lives. Women’s issues gain much attention in various parts of the world including Canada, however, in Iran this is not the case. One of the main reasons for this resides in the deep-rooted beliefs and general understanding of the society about women’s being. These general conceptions or master narratives can shape, influence or change the lives of women. However, in modern times with the growth of education, knowledge, communication with other parts of the world, and increase in women’s awareness, new narratives and concepts are beginning to emerge in Iranian society. These counter narratives can reshape ones which damage the identity and being of women. These master narratives have a stronghold on people’s minds and souls such that overcoming them is not a matter of months.