by Olibro | January 5, 2023 | Articles
Western depictions of gender relations in Muslim-majority societies reflect two widespread assumptions, shared even by many academics. The first assumption is that the Muslim world is uniformly gender-traditional, meaning that opinions on gender issues are presumed...
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by Olibro | December 6, 2022 | News
In March, 1979, urban Iranian women and girls and their male supporters took part in a week of demonstrations in Tehran, beginning on International Women’s Day, to protest the new Islamist regime’s edict compelling women to wear hijabs. The demonstrators expressed a...
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by Olibro | November 1, 2022 | News
Dr. Janet Afary, Millichamp Chair in Global Religion & Modernity and professor of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, talks about the events that sparked the latest women’s protests in Iran, explains the long history of women leading change...
by Olibro | October 1, 2022 | News
Persian: سنت فمینیستی در ایران ورای دورانها و رژیمها قرار دارد French: En Iran, la tradition féministe transcende les époques et les régimes
