by Brian Griffith and Zhinia Noorian. To many Western observers, Iran’s “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement may seem like something new, as if Iranian women were just now waking up to that possibility. Actually of course, their fight spans centuries, and other great movements of Iran’s recent past have received little attention in the West. Here is one episode in this struggle … [Read more...] about Iran’s Million Signatures Campaign.
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Iran’s First Feminist Wave in the 1890s.
by Brian Griffith. In 1895, Bibi Khanoom Astarabadi, a tutor for the children of Iran’s shah, published the nation’s first ideologically feminist book, The Vices of Men. It was innovative partly because of how it dealt with gender bias. The bigger novelty was that a book launched a public debate spanning the nation. Astarabadi wrote it as a reasoned reply to an earlier book, … [Read more...] about Iran’s First Feminist Wave in the 1890s.
Parvin Paidar and Post-patriarchal Islam.
by Brian Griffith. In most countries or cultures around the world, women show more interest in religion than men. Women are more likely to follow a spiritual path, pray every day, or visit churches, mosques, and shrines. We may assume they are blindly following the directions of male religious leaders, but more likely they have goals and values of their own. I want to tell … [Read more...] about Parvin Paidar and Post-patriarchal Islam.