Tales of Subversion: Women Challenging Fundamentalism in the Islamic Republic of Iran
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I will begin with a tale. Its plot centers on a woman and poet known as Tahereh. Tahereh was not her real name; it was the title bestowed on her by Bab, a religious leader and the precursor of the Baha’i faith in Iran. It means “the pure.” Tahereh was born in Qazvin, Iran, in 1814, to a well-known and influential clerical family.1
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- 1.See ABBAS AMANAT, RESURRECTION AND RENEWAL: THE MAKING OF THE BABI MOVEMENT IN IRAN, 1844–1850,295 (Ithaca/London: Cornell University Press, 1989).Google Scholar
- 4.See generally FARZ ANEH MILANI, VEILS AND WORDS: THE EMERGING VOICES OF IRANIAN WOMEN WRITERS 77–99 (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1992).Google Scholar
- 11.See JANET AFARY, THE IRANIAN CONSTITUTIONAL REVOLUTION 1906–1911, 178–9 (NewYork: Columbia University Press, 1996).Google Scholar
- 12.HAIDEH MOGHISSI, POPULISM AND FEMINISM IN IRAN: WOMEN’S STRUGGLE IN A MALE-DEFINED REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT 30] (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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