2019 marked the fortieth anniversary of the Iranian Revolution. Yet the turbulent events of late 2019 and early 2020 are stark reminders that Iranians continue to resist for their liberation. These events once again confirmed that the history, legacy, and freedom dreams of the 1979 Revolution are still bitterly contested, forty years later. Since the very beginning of that uprising, the status of gender politics and its relationship to the revolutionary project has been a site of debate and contestation both among revolutionary actors and outside commentators. Unlike previous journal special issues marking anniversary moments of the Iranian Revolution, this collection of essays, art, and creative writing emerged over the course of conversations in 2019 that centered projects of gender justice, women’s leadership in popular struggles, and other forms of feminist political work which are a major force of societal transformation in Iran.
Frontiers: The Journal of Women's Studies
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Gender Politics in Iran and the Last Forty Years: Eleven Stories
by Alborz Ghandehari
Art Exhibition
Featuring Morehshin Allahyari, Hannah Darbi, Niloufar Keyhani, Gelare Khoshgozaran & Nooshin Rostami
Curated by Azadeh Tajpour
Archive of Incomplete
by Tara Jad Ahmadi
Urban Experience in Tehran
Negotiating Gender and CLass in Public Spaces
by Jaleh Jalili
Rewriting Gender in Post-Revolutionary Iran
How Cohabitation comes to embody the Affair between Law and Society
by Maral Sahebjame
Verdicts of Science, Rulings of Faith
Transsexuals in Iran
by Afsaneh Najmabadi
Interview with Orkideh Behrouzan
Her Creative Writings and the Iran-Iraq War
by Azadeh Tajpour and Orkideh Behrouzan