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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 220–239.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Claudia Yaghoobi Abstract While text-based and cyberspace campaigns against compulsory veiling in Iran have received much attention, Iranian diasporic creative writers have also engaged in this resistance through their writings, but they have remained almost unacknowledged. This article argues...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 March 2024
... around the world, Khomeini made clear from the outset that the new Iranian revolutionary state would begin its suppression through the bodies of women (Grewal 2023 ; Ybarra and Oviedo 2023 ). Compulsory veiling became the law in 1983, and women in Iran began their resistance against...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (3): 75–98.
Published: 01 November 2007
...
1995, 107). Compulsory unveiling led to the social isolation of women
who refused to unveil. Among those who did not support unveiling were
some who favored women’s education, but since girls were not allowed
to attend school wearing the veil, these women refused to send...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (3): 87–108.
Published: 01 November 2014
...—that is, undisciplined bodies can still be mobilized to effectively
demonstrate the necessity of the disciplining power (Foucault 1980,
195 – 6). In this case, the Iranian state uses the “unhealthy” bodies of
Iranian women—allegedly the result of compulsory veiling—to justify
the “need...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 1–22.
Published: 01 July 2009
... in the public sphere.
Many women resisted these views, staged protests against compulsory
veiling, continued to participate in the labor force (especially in the
1980s when they were needed due to the labor shortages and weaken-
ing wartime economy), and enrolled in universities when possible...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (3): 416–437.
Published: 01 November 2017
... that links music, female singing, and veiling with issues of morality and political expression. In the early 1980s the revolutionary government enforced compulsory veiling, strict limits on music making, and a ban on public female singing as part of its larger efforts to eradicate “corruption...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 124–143.
Published: 01 July 2020
... deliberately builds on Daneshvar’s theme of male violence and women’s domestic problems, questioning shariʿa laws as they are applied to women. Women without Men , published a decade after the Revolution, portrays the struggle of women for equality and freedom after compulsory veiling and gender segregation...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 288–290.
Published: 01 July 2016
... are dissidents renegotiating their sexualities and redrawing the boundaries of what may be possible in a culture of compulsory virginity. The third space is a way to reinscribe sexual behavior and build solidarity in the spaces reserved for men where opposite sex partner relationships are not available. However...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 235–243.
Published: 01 July 2020
... on Wednesday the 7th and then again on International Women’s Day, March 8. On the 11th there was the Taleghani decree that said, “No, the veil is not compulsory.” Everyone was euphoric. At the same time, there was a pullback by many women, because they thought they had won, and many didn’t come to the march...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 238–259.
Published: 01 July 2022
... only a few months after the 1979 revolution as part of an Islamic code of conduct. Because of its significance, veiling has become studied by so many Iranian feminists in a variety of ways, which focus on the compulsory aspect of unveiling/veiling for Iranian women (Afary 2009 ; Afshar 1998 ; Mir...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (3): 458–468.
Published: 01 November 2023
... compulsory hijab imposed after the 1979 revolution to the one-million-signature campaign for legal equality between women and men in 2006 and to the Girls of the Revolution Street in opposition to the hijab in 2018—were all characterized by a firm focus on women’s rights, the Jina uprising marks a women’s...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 83–106.
Published: 01 March 2008
... the defeat of women’s suff rage and the publication of Nazira Zayn
al-Din’s explosive treatise, Unveiling and Veiling (19281928). IInn tthehe eearlyarly
1920s, many women had entertained hopes that their wartime service
would be rewarded with full citizenship rights. Syrian writers Nazik...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2020
... that focuses on the perceived oppression of Islam to one that highlights the violence of the secular state. Copyright © 2020 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2020 Faiza Ambah veiling secularism feminism Muslim women My hair is neither sacred nor cheap, Neither the cause...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 52–79.
Published: 01 July 2014
... of Education; the religious curriculum
offered at every level has been shaped by conservative, reformist, Sunni
Islam with the purpose of building a “purer” Islamic society (Schwedler
2002, 50). Islah’s control over education has resulted in sex segregated
schools, compulsory veiling...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (3): 108–135.
Published: 01 November 2013
... a mahram (close
male relative) picks them up. Moreover, rules define in detail, among
other elements, compulsory dress, as mentioned earlier.
The majority of students transgress these rules. Some wear knee-
length or skintight skirts. Others do not respect the compulsory colors...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 285–289.
Published: 01 July 2022
... to (and have sex with) whom but also who is allowed to see whom and which body parts. Hence “two non- mahrems of opposite sex are expected to establish distance and follow codes of invisible boundaries, such as segregation, veiling, a limited gaze, and controlled behavior” (145). Sehlikoğlu masterfully...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (3): 89–118.
Published: 01 November 2008
... and the public spheres. In the past two decades, gradual transgressions of urf and sharia have become a sign of modernity and resistance for many women and young people who wish to generate changes in their situation. Since 2001, the trend of willfully neglected veiling (bad-hejabi) in physical space has been...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (3): 307–325.
Published: 01 November 2020
... fully veiled, with men on the other side of the street (Sedghi 2007 : 25). Upper-middle-class women were categorically shielded from the outside world and not allowed under any circumstances to take on paid work. Their voice was “considered part of [their] ʿ Owrat [pudenda] and subject to strict...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 143–165.
Published: 01 July 2016
... . Göle Nilüfer . 1996 . The Forbidden Modern: Civilization and Veiling . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press . Gregg Melissa , and Seigworth Gregory J. 2010 . “ An Inventory of Shimmers .” In The Affect Theory Reader , edited by Gregg Melissa and Seigworth Gregory...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 64–95.
Published: 01 March 2021
... in an Ettelaʿat headline reeling back Khomeini’s stance: “The Veil Is Not Compulsory.” Other clerics qualified the issue, declaring that women should veil, but they did not need to wear the chador per se. “Hijab is a Revolution,” read one published opinion piece by a young schoolgirl, responding to Simin...
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