Museum of Resistance and Resilience Main MenuPraxis #1: Curation and Annotation (Group Project)details of Praxis #1 assignmentPraxis #1.1 War, Memory, And Identity: Beyond Victims and Voice Museum of Resistance and ResilienceProfessor Marjory Wentworth Honor's Class at College of CharlestonPraxis #2 Media Intervention, Multimedia Essay (Individual Project)Entry 2 in our Museum of Resistance and ResiliencePraxis #3 Manifesto of Future Resistance and ResilienceMedia Intervention/Media PostsFinal Course Reflection - A Letter to the FutureDue November 18Vicki Callahanf68c37bed83f129872c0216fae5c9d063d9e11baLisa Müller-Tredecc71af55f5122020f2b95396300e25feb73b6995
Iranian Women March Against The Hijab
1media/dast dar dast_thumb.png2020-09-23T02:03:07-07:00niki zarehdaf6e44d2e2f9adcdb0372d6ed1999b66a32e1f3377848On March 8 1979, 100000 women marched in protest against new laws passed one day earlier that made wearing the Hijab (veil) in public compulsory for all women. “They were demanding the freedom of choice. It wasn’t a protest against religion or beliefs, in fact many religious women joined the protest, this was strictly about women’s rights, it was all about having the option.” – Hengameh Golestanplain2020-09-23T16:27:01-07:00Eujue Lee4c467852ba9fe34b2afff6e37ce08bae096980eb
12020-09-23T02:14:14-07:00niki zarehdaf6e44d2e2f9adcdb0372d6ed1999b66a32e1f3Men Protecting Womenniki zareh2The only thing protecting the women was a chain of male allies, who linked up arms to shield them.plain2020-09-23T14:35:41-07:00niki zarehdaf6e44d2e2f9adcdb0372d6ed1999b66a32e1f3
The Islamic Revolution of 1979 brought seismic changes to Iran, not least for women. One area that has come under scrutiny is the way women dress and wear their hair - the old Shah, in the 1930s, banned the veil and ordered police to forcibly remove headscarves. But in the early 1980s, the new Islamic authorities imposed a mandatory dress code that required all women to wear the hijab.
In Iran, women's clothes have been a political issue since before the revolution in 1979. Back in the first half of the 20th century, women's clothes showed great variety: rural women wore a floral chador, secular and wealthier women wore Western clothes, and "the black chador was mainly worn in big cities by traditional and ultra-orthodox religious women." In the 1970s, things got more complicated: The manteau only emerged in the 1970s as a political statement by young, educated women, many devoted to leftist or modern Islamist ideals. But after 1979, when the revolutionary government sought to impose black chador on all Iranian women, the meaning of both chador and manteau were transformed. In the early 1980s, a spectrum of women who might have looked nothing like each other on a pre-1979 street began to embrace the manteau as a compromise.
“This turned out to be the last day women walked the streets of Tehran uncovered. It was our first disappointment with the new post-revolution rulers of Iran. We didn’t get the effect we had wanted. But when I look at this photo, I don’t just see the hijab looming over it. I see the women, the solidarity, the joy – and the strength we felt.” – Hengameh Golestan