Islamic Cultural Nationalism and Gender Politics in Iran

摘要

Over two decades of women's resistance and ceaseless efforts to overcome gender barriers in post-revolutionary Iran demonstrate that developmentalist policies of the ancien rgime positively changed women's self-image and expectations. Regardless of the incomplete, deformed and debased character of modernisation forces, they opened possibilities for women that the new regime has not been able to take back through re-Islamisation policies, whether by persuasion or coercion. More important than small successes in pushing back the Islamists' offensives is women's new-found confidence in challenging the Muslim reformists' position on issues of women's rights, exposing the limits of reforms achievable under a religious state.