CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE AND FEMINIST RESISTANCE IN IRAN: RECLAIMING AGENCY UNDER AUTHORITARIAN RULE
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This paper examines how civil disobedience, rather than social disorderliness, is playing a role in forming the Iranian women’s movement, especially after the death of Mahsa Amini and the outburst of the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement. The article relies on interdisciplinary materials, such as feminist theory, literature on civil disobedience, and media analysis, to retrace the forty years of women’s action against patriarchal laws in Iran. The study explains how the simple actions of bodily resistance by the Iranian women have been reorganized into a mass repertoire of nonviolent resistance against both religious and political authority. It focuses on embodied resistance, e.g., unveiling, dancing, and public speech, which is a moral and political reclamation of agency. It can also be observed that the results help to see how digital media fuel such actions globally, making the Iranian feminist struggle a transnational fight against rights and dignity. The study adds to the discourse of gender politics, social movements, and resistance in authoritarian situations.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Civil Disobedience, Iranian Women’s Movement, Gender Resistance, Authoritarianism, Mahsa Amini
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