Bypassing Islamism and Feminism: Women’s Resistance and Rebellion in Post-revolutionary Iran

This paper explores the reason behind the crisis of representation in post-revolutionary competing Iranian gender discourses. These competing discourses include Islamic fundamentalism, religious revisionism, and secular feminism. The crisis of representation is related to at least three main presupp...

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Autor principal:	Fatemeh Sadeghi
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Lenguaje:	EN FR
Publicado:	Université de Provence 2010
Materias:	Green Movement Islamic fundamentalism reform movement religious revisionism secular feminism History of Africa DT1-3415 Social sciences (General) H1-99
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:b6eb9fa84a28411e872f83e93a00d1482021-12-02T10:06:18ZBypassing Islamism and Feminism: Women’s Resistance and Rebellion in Post-revolutionary Iran0997-13272105-227110.4000/remmm.6936https://doaj.org/article/b6eb9fa84a28411e872f83e93a00d1482010-12-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/remmm/6936https://doaj.org/toc/0997-1327https://doaj.org/toc/2105-2271This paper explores the reason behind the crisis of representation in post-revolutionary competing Iranian gender discourses. These competing discourses include Islamic fundamentalism, religious revisionism, and secular feminism. The crisis of representation is related to at least three main presuppositions and attendant action programs: first, discrimination against women and possible accommodations should be examined in the context of religious and legal institutions. This approach resulted in the depoliticization of women’s issues, even though most Iranian women have persistently proclaimed equality and citizenship through political participation. This was the case for the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the reform movement and most recently, the Green Movement following the 2009 presidential election. The second presupposition is that individual identity is a fundamental condition for socio-political activism. The third presupposition is that discrimination against women in post-revolutionary Iran is essentially a legalist strategy and has resulted in campaigns that failed to address women’s daily challenges. On the contrary, women’s political participation in post-revolutionary Iran shows that gender issues are always political issues and need to be understood politically and politicized. Such a notion challenges attitudes which relegate gender discrimination and social solutions to the purview of religion or secularism.Fatemeh SadeghiUniversité de ProvencearticleGreen MovementIslamic fundamentalismreform movementreligious revisionismsecular feminismHistory of AfricaDT1-3415Social sciences (General)H1-99ENFRRevue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, Vol 128, Pp 209-228 (2010)
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spellingShingle	Green Movement Islamic fundamentalism reform movement religious revisionism secular feminism History of Africa DT1-3415 Social sciences (General) H1-99 Fatemeh Sadeghi Bypassing Islamism and Feminism: Women’s Resistance and Rebellion in Post-revolutionary Iran
description	This paper explores the reason behind the crisis of representation in post-revolutionary competing Iranian gender discourses. These competing discourses include Islamic fundamentalism, religious revisionism, and secular feminism. The crisis of representation is related to at least three main presuppositions and attendant action programs: first, discrimination against women and possible accommodations should be examined in the context of religious and legal institutions. This approach resulted in the depoliticization of women’s issues, even though most Iranian women have persistently proclaimed equality and citizenship through political participation. This was the case for the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the reform movement and most recently, the Green Movement following the 2009 presidential election. The second presupposition is that individual identity is a fundamental condition for socio-political activism. The third presupposition is that discrimination against women in post-revolutionary Iran is essentially a legalist strategy and has resulted in campaigns that failed to address women’s daily challenges. On the contrary, women’s political participation in post-revolutionary Iran shows that gender issues are always political issues and need to be understood politically and politicized. Such a notion challenges attitudes which relegate gender discrimination and social solutions to the purview of religion or secularism.
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title	Bypassing Islamism and Feminism: Women’s Resistance and Rebellion in Post-revolutionary Iran
title_short	Bypassing Islamism and Feminism: Women’s Resistance and Rebellion in Post-revolutionary Iran
title_full	Bypassing Islamism and Feminism: Women’s Resistance and Rebellion in Post-revolutionary Iran
title_fullStr	Bypassing Islamism and Feminism: Women’s Resistance and Rebellion in Post-revolutionary Iran
title_full_unstemmed	Bypassing Islamism and Feminism: Women’s Resistance and Rebellion in Post-revolutionary Iran
title_sort	bypassing islamism and feminism: women’s resistance and rebellion in post-revolutionary iran
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Bypassing Islamism and Feminism: Women’s Resistance and Rebellion in Post-revolutionary Iran

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