Populism and Feminism in Iran: Women's Struggle in a Male-Defined Revolutionary Movement

By Haideh Moghissi

Women presented the first effective challenge to the Islamic regime and the clerical authority in post-revolutionary Iran. Women's activism in support of their legal rights and personal freedom, however, did not develop into a strong movement against the rising fundamentalism. The Iranian socialists did not support women's autonomous organizations. The convergence of the Left's populism with Islamic populism, and the influence of the Iranian/Shiite political culture that promotes male authority and female submission, could not reconcile with women's claims to individual rights, choice, and personal freedom and their struggle for autonomy and self-determination in private or public life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312164696
• ISBN13: 9780312164690
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 217 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.5"