[lbo-talk] Iranian feminists

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Aug 12 10:44:27 PDT 2006


Yoshie, I'm reading an interview with Hamid Dabashi <http:// www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=10707>, in which he says:


> But if you ask me about the specific memory that is to be forgotten
> on the colonial site, then it is most obviously the story of women
> themselves, those who have been fighting foreign domination and
> domestic abuse alike. There are numerous memoirs written over the
> last decade alone by Iranian women political activists who have
> suffered and survived heroically under both the Pahlavis and the
> Islamic Republic. But who has heard of people like Vida Hajebi
> Tabrizi, Fariba Marzban, Nasrin Parvaz, or Ashraf Dehghan—all among
> political activists who struggled and resisted both the Pahlavi
> tyranny and the even more horrid tyranny of the Islamic Republic
> that succeeded it? No one.
A search for those names on MRZine comes up blank. Wouldn't indigenous Iranian feminism be an interesting topic for you to cover?

Doug



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