The Story of Women Question and the State in Iran

Studying the history of Iranian society indicates that modifications, orders and ideas coming from above in either secular or Islamic regimes, have never been accepted by Iranian people without negotiation and/or contestation; Dealing with modernity and anti-modernity approaches of different states, Iranians from various background and walks of lives, in particular women in all their intersectional diversity and heterogeneity, have always found the middle way to adopt imposed concepts and ideologies in creative ways, to navigate them with subversive potential.
Iranian women have been taking any chance to show their resistance(s) towards the gender policy of the state in public and private arenas. This course will shed light on the ways through which they have been responding, negotiating and resisting the imposed concepts and ideas by the state.