The One Million Signatures Campaign and the Tradition of Petitioning/ Majid Shia’Ali

Twenty years have passed since an experience that was never repeated either before or after it. It was a campaign made unique by the convergence of several characteristics: the formation of a formal feminist movement, political and religious moderation with an emphasis on legality and non-conflict with religious foundations, an emphasis on collective action and […]...

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Digital Empowerment and Women’s Rights / Elaheh Amani

A report on the sixty-seventh session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW) held its sixty-seventh session at the UN headquarters from March 6th to 17th (1). The main focus of this session was innovation and technological advancements and their impact on […]...

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Silence in the face of unforgivable violation is unacceptable / Goddess of safety

This is a caption. Goddess Amani “Sexual assault”, “sexual harassment”, and “sexual abuse” are three concepts that are considered as forms of sexual violence in the literature of the women’s movement and have different legal meanings. The common thread among all forms of sexual violence is that sexual contact occurs without full and informed consent […]...

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اتBook Introduction: Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape

Susan Brownmiller, an American writer, journalist, and feminist activist, in her most well-known book “Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape” published in 1975, makes a controversial statement: “Rape is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear.” Brownmiller does not […]...

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“Red Nail Polish”, A Mediating Approach to Representing Women in Iranian Cinema / Zahra Bagheri Shad

This is a picture of a flower. Zahra Bagheri is happy. The importance of an intersectional approach in examining the position of women. One of the main criticisms of classical feminist theories is that many of these theories have been one-dimensional and based on polarizing gender roles, implying that all women are inherently oppressed and […]...

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Book Introduction: Film and Feminist Critics

Since the 1970s, the theory of film has gained a special place in film studies. One of the most important and challenging areas in this regard is the connection between film studies and feminist theories, which should be directly addressed in the emergence of prominent theorists who often borrow some concepts from previous or contemporary […]...

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