Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 PhD Candidate of Sociology, Tabriz University. Tabriz. Iran
2 Assistant Professor of Sociology, , Tabriz University. Tabriz. Iran
3 Professor of Sociology, , Tabriz University. Tabriz. Iran
4 Assistant Professor of Sociology, Islamic Azad university. Tabriz Branch. Tabriz, Iran
Abstract
The purpose of this research is to study the feminist discourse in the contemporary Iran. The data of our research are gathered from Zanan (Women) and the Feminist School magazines. Therefore, we looked at the feminist discourse in the texts of these magazines from 1992 to 2011. We also have used the historical and social data of Iran over this period. The results show that the basic structure of the discourse of feminism represents five different articulations. Each of the articulations was formed on the basis of five various nodal points; women's economic participation, religious innovation, human rights, secular religiosity and inter-movement coalition. Often the main antagonist between the feminist discourse and the dominant discourse is over unequal gender laws. This is due to the different perceptions of femininity in the two discourses. Eventually, this antagonism led to a shift in the discourse of feminism from a democratic discourse to a popular one.
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