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A Tough Place to be a Woman with a Cause
Discusses Shirin Ebadi, an Iranian women's rights lawyer and Iran's first woman judge before the revolution. [Christian Science Monitor]
Bargaining with Fundamentalism: Women and the Politics of Population Control in Iran
Article by Homa Hoodfar from the Global Reproductive Health Forum.
Independence Day: Women Rule a Village
Article by Parivash Berenji and Parisa Tashakori about a village in Iran where women rule one day a year.
Khatami and the Status of Women in Iran
By Donna Hughes, director of the Women's Studies Program at the University of Rhode Island. [Z Magazine]
Post-revolutionary Iran: Islamic Feminism and the Crisis of Civil Society
By Elham Gheytanchi. [Center For Comparative Social Analysis, UCLA]
Postcard From Mashad -- Young Afghan-American Woman Found Iran Was
Point of view by Fariba Najab. [Pacific News Service]
Right to Choose: First Protests Against Mandatory Hijab
Photo essay compiled by Pedram Missaghi showing women protesting against the manditory hijab in Iran in the first weeks after the 1979 revolution. [Iranian]
Second class: The Legal Status of Iranian Women
Paper by Mehrangiz Kar prepared for a conference organized by Dialogue and Action between the People of Iran and America. [Iranian]
The Contending Discourses on Women in Iran
Article by Farideh Farhi describing the various obstacles that Iranian women face in their struggle for equality.
The Iranian Revolution Turned Against Women Who Supported It
Article by Tayana Marshall from The McGill Daily.
The Iranian: Women
Several feature articles about women from The Iranian online magazine.
The Veiled Threat: Iranian Theocracy's Fear of Females
By Azar Nafisi.[The New Republic Online]
Women and the Politics of Fundamentalism in Iran
Response to Haleh Afshar's article of the same name by Mandana Hendessi and Rouhi Shafii.
Women and the Politics of Fundamentalism in Iran
Article by Haleh Afshar.
Women in Iran
Analysis from the PBS special Vis à Vis "Beyond the Veil".