In 1979, Iran’s female revolutionaries passionately debated matters of dress. Feminist writer Kate Millett captured their voices on hundreds of hours of tape.
In 1979, an American feminist captured Iranian women on audiotape debating and protesting new rules on women’s dress
Women marching in Tehran, Iran on March 12, 1979. The banner reads ‘Evil Television’ and refers to the takeover of state broadcasters by supporters of Ayatollah Khomeini.Oct. 20, 2022 12:23 pm ET In the winter of 2017, a young woman named Vida Movahed climbed atop a telecommunications box on a busy Tehran street, took off her headscarf and hung it on a stick to protest Iran’s mandatory hijab rules. Her act is now linked to a movement seizing Iranian cities in 2022. At the time, it led me to the archives to study the first women’s protests in Iran after the revolution that toppled Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
In February and March of 1979, the atmosphere in Iran was jubilant and hopeful. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had just returned from exile, and a national referendum on the creation of an Islamic Republic was still months in the future. The interim government imposed new rules and regulations, but these seemed haphazard and malleable in that flickering moment of possibility when protest and debate could still alter the country’s trajectory.
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