The women's movement in Iran after the revolution, from ideological demands to everyday demands

Zolfagharian, Fatemeh; Taghavi, Seyed Mohammad Ali; Athari, Seyed Hossein

doi:10.22034/ipsa.2023.495

The women's movement in Iran after the revolution, from ideological demands to everyday demands

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

¹ Department of Political Science, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

² Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Allameh Tabatabai University, Iran

³ Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

10.22034/ipsa.2023.495

Abstract

In the last two decades, there have been many developments in the field of gender in Iran, which has made the gender component one of the most important factors explaining the new society. Women have always been the subject of power, and imposing restrictions on them in the form of laws, custom, Sharia, clothing and lifestyle has been a patriarchal ideological approach. The women's movement in Iran has gained international dimensions. This movement has a history of a hundred years and is influenced by the waves of transformation of women's thought and the transformation of the concept of power at the international level. Despite all this effectiveness, there is a delay of several decades in the opinion and political action of women in Iran. In this research, we examine the role of power evolution in women's demands in Iran and pay attention to everyday politics that has presented itself in the form of criticizing ideological discourse and reaching liberation as everyday life and benefiting from human freedoms. The question of this research is, what conceptual evolution has the women's movement in Iran had in the years after the revolution? The findings of the research show that the women's movement in Iran is transitioning from ideology to everyday politics, and women's demands have turned into protests against power interference in their private lives and opposition to body subjugation and efforts to achieve human rights.

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