[lbo-talk] Iranian feminists

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 8/12/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> 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?

In my article (at
<http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/furuhashi130706.html>), I cited these
Iranian feminists' work:

Roksana Bahramitash, "Market Fundamentalism versus Religious
Fundamentalism: Women's Employment in Iran," Critique: Critical Middle
Eastern Studies 13.1, Spring 2004: 33-46

Valentine M. Moghadam ("Women, Work, and Ideology in the Islamic
Republic," International Journal of Middle East Studies 20.2, May
1988: 221-243

Moghadam, "Revolution, the State, Islam, and Women: Gender Politics in
Iran and Afghanistan, Social Text 22, Spring 1989: 40-61

Moghadam, "Gender and Revolutionary Transformation: Iran 1979 and East
Central Europe 1989," Gender and Society 9.3, June 1995: 328-358)

Moghadam, "Islamic Feminism and Its Discontents: Toward a Resolution
of the Debate," Signs 27.4, Summer 2002: 1135-1171.

If you check out the last one, "Islamic Feminism and Its Discontents:
Toward a Resolution of the Debate," you'll get a sense of
intra-feminist debate inside Iran as well as outside it, too.  If you
don't have access to it but want to read it, I can send it to you
offlist.
-- 
Yoshie
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