The English translation of the novel Touba and the Meaning of Night (FeministPress.org) by the pre-eminent Iranian writer Shahrnush Parsipur was recently released by a

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I travelled to Iran the same year that Shirin Ebadi was awarded the Noble Peace Prize and Zahra Kazemi was murdered in the dungeons of

INTRODUCTION It may be asserted that the Iranian political and ideological discourses have always had an influential effect on the Iranian literary development, regardless of

Feminist research or women’s studies is a methodological perspective that criticises societal inequalities, with an emphasis on gender disparities. As a secular feminist I initiated

The very sad news of Dr Paidar's passing moved me tremendously even though I did not know her personally, but her work had inspired me

Being part of the last Iranian Women's Studies Foundation (IWSF) conference in Vienna, experiencing the clash of ideas and positions there, and explaining it over

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