Populism and Feminism in Iran

Women’s Struggle in a Male-Defined Revolutionary Movement

Haideh Moghissi author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

Published:18th Dec '96

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Women presented the first effective challenge to the Islamic regime and the clerical authority in post-revolutionary Iran. Women's activism in support of their legal rights and personal freedom, however, did not develop into a strong movement against the rising fundamentalism. The Iranian socialists did not support women's autonomous organizations. The convergence of the Left's populism with Islamic populism, and the influence of the Iranian/Shiite political culture that promotes male authority and female submission, could not reconcile with women's claims to individual rights, choice, and personal freedom and their struggle for autonomy and self-determination in private or public life.

ISBN: 9780333674123

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Weight: 454g

217 pages

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