Iranian Political Science Association Research Letter of Political Science 1735790X 20 3 2025 08 23 Non-feminist Possibilities for Expanding Feminine Life in Contemporary Western Thought and its applications in Iranian society Non-feminist Possibilities for Expanding Feminine Life in Contemporary Western Thought and its applications in Iranian society 247 289 552 10.22034/ipsa.2025.552 FA Mokhtar Nouri Faculty member of the Department of Political Science, Razi University of Kermanshah 0009-0002-2442-4118 Salman Sadeghizadeh Assistant Professor of Political Sociology, Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, Iran 0000-0002-2983-0054 Journal Article 2025 06 22 In the literature of social sciences and in the field of "feminist thought",many extensive researches have been done to analyze the obstacles and challenges facing "feminine life".Despite all the efforts and intellectual innovations made in the field of women's studies, political, social,economic and cultural limitations ahead them still exist in many contemporary societies.It seems that the reason for the entry of many contemporary thinkers into the field of women's studies is due to this restrictive situation,thinkers who believe that in the long history of Western philosophy,women's voices have been absent and that concepts and ideas have always been under the control of men and male morality.As a result, in order to end this limitation and imbalance,important views have been put forward by some prominent thinkers of our era with different intellectual approaches.Within such a framework,the present article examines the issue of which of the theories existing in the field of contemporary social sciences and outside of feminist literature have been able to provide the necessary intellectual possibilities for the expansion of Feminine life in nowadays lifestyle?As a hypothesis,the answer is that thinkers such as Amartya Sen, Ronald Inglehart, and Alain Touraine can be considered among the most important thinkers who,outside of feminist thought,have each paid attention to the issue of women in a specific way and,in light of a network of concepts in their works and speeches, they have provided appropriate intellectual and practical possibilities to the expansion of Feminine life in today's world, including in Iranian society In the literature of social sciences and in the field of "feminist thought",many extensive researches have been done to analyze the obstacles and challenges facing "feminine life".Despite all the efforts and intellectual innovations made in the field of women's studies, political, social,economic and cultural limitations ahead them still exist in many contemporary societies.It seems that the reason for the entry of many contemporary thinkers into the field of women's studies is due to this restrictive situation,thinkers who believe that in the long history of Western philosophy,women's voices have been absent and that concepts and ideas have always been under the control of men and male morality.As a result, in order to end this limitation and imbalance,important views have been put forward by some prominent thinkers of our era with different intellectual approaches.Within such a framework,the present article examines the issue of which of the theories existing in the field of contemporary social sciences and outside of feminist literature have been able to provide the necessary intellectual possibilities for the expansion of Feminine life in nowadays lifestyle?As a hypothesis,the answer is that thinkers such as Amartya Sen, Ronald Inglehart, and Alain Touraine can be considered among the most important thinkers who,outside of feminist thought,have each paid attention to the issue of women in a specific way and,in light of a network of concepts in their works and speeches, they have provided appropriate intellectual and practical possibilities to the expansion of Feminine life in today's world, including in Iranian society http://www.ipsajournal.ir/article_552_94c7bb58efc3b337800875b5d382a072.pdf