Being Women of Influence

The Iranian female literary voice has existed since the early nineteenth century (in the 1930s), in the past journalistic outlets and in literary form. It has become a powerful tool for raising awareness about the plight of the Iranian woman.

Female Iranian artists are hindered by censorship and persecution in Iran and are publically humiliated. Iranian/Persian woman are seeking to define themselves; as well as the meaning of their national identity.

The image of American women or the West cultural women is seen as that of sexual freedom, among Iranian women. Iranian/Persian women possess beauty, charm, intellect, etc; they are portraying themselves as woman of the west. Many of these women are fantasizing about living in the USA.

Nevertheless Iranian/Persian women have to imagine being an American women and living like them. To become a new Iranian woman, one who just may escape the past. Iranian women are willing to do anything to get freedom under the Islamic law.

In Iranian history, womens rights continue to seesaw. The recent mass of arrests of dissenters, including the much-vilified incarceration of female activists that demand the abolition of lashings and stoning, and the crackdown on immodest dress (of men as well as of women) could very well stall the womens movement that has been building over the past few years.

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