If woman were forced to unveil, then veiling must have existed.
There is never a univeral culture of anything in anything. There are however predominant trends.
--- On Tue, 6/23/09, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com> wrote:
>
> [1] When you think that veiling has always existed in Iran,
> you are hypostatizing Iran such that it's current
> incarnation is the way it has always been. This is wrong. In
> the 1930s, they were actually forced to unveil, to which
> some pious women rebelled! It really fucking irritates me,
> this crap about how there is and has always been a singular,
> uniform culture of veiling in Iran! Or any singular
> hypostatized culture of anything. It's a culture: it lives,
> it breathes, it changes. Sweet baybaby jaysus.)
>