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From Resistance to Repression: Modernization and Transformations of Women’s Movement

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This chapter analyses the new state’s modernization project as a multifaceted project that stimulated the institutionalization of the modern gender system. It discusses the systematic suppression of the press and women’s independent organizations in the Pahlavi era (1921–1941) and the establishment of state-sponsored women’s organizations. The chapter investigates how this process implied new notions of housework as apolitical and pushed women into domestic space. The argument has been situated in socio-political transformations after the establishment of the Pahlavi regime such as the class interest and the cooperation of the old aristocracy with the new state. Eventually, the changing and dynamic nature of women’s resistance at the beginning of the twentieth century has been briefly interrogated.

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Dezhamkhooy, M. (2023). From Resistance to Repression: Modernization and Transformations of Women’s Movement. In: Women and the Politics of Resistance in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28097-9_6

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