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Beyond Civilizational Binaries: Notes on Iran from an intersectional feminist lens as the basis for weaving networks of transnational solidarity

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No. 19 (2023): Junio
https://doi.org/10.5354/2735-7473.2023.71215

Abstract

This article seeks to problematize and explore some of the historical conditions leading up to the killing of Mahsa Jina Amini by the police forces of the fundamentalist Islamic Republic of Iran. Situated within feminist theories, we reflect critically on orientalist notions, using intersectionality and decolonial studies as tools in the exploration of the politics and evolution of gender formation in Iran during the 19th and 20th centuries in order to contextualize the current uprisings in Iran, as well as to explore the opportunistic use of a civilizational feminist narrative within the power dynamics between the Global North and South. We argue that the hijab has been politicized by Islamists as well as by neocolonial political forces in the West, situating women’s bodies in disputed terrains that deprive them of their bodily autonomy.

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Iran, Hijab, Orientalism, Intersectionality, Feminism

Author Biographies

Ghazal Ghazi, Universidad de Oklahoma

Magíster en Bibliotecología y Estudios de la Información, Universidad de Oklahoma, EEUU. Graduada en Estudios de Género, Universidad de Arizona, EEUU.

Violeta Arvin Casoni, Universidad Federal de Goiás

Maestranda en Performances Culturales, Universidad Federal de Goiás, Brasil. Graduada en Sociología, Universidad de Playa Ancha, Chile.

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Ghazi, G. ., & Arvin Casoni, V. . (2023). Beyond Civilizational Binaries: Notes on Iran from an intersectional feminist lens as the basis for weaving networks of transnational solidarity. Revista Punto Género, (19), pp.186–220. https://doi.org/10.5354/2735-7473.2023.71215
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