Women presented the first effective challenge to the Islamic regime and the clerical authority in post-revolutionary Iran. Women's activism in support of their legal rights and personal freedom, however, did not develop into a strong movement against the rising fundamentalism. The Iranian socialists did not support women's autonomous organizations. The convergence of the Left's populism with Islamic populism, and the influence of the Iranian/Shiite political culture that promotes male authority and female submission, could not reconcile with women's claims to individual rights, choice, and personal freedom and their struggle for autonomy and self-determination in private or public life.
- ISBN13 9780312164690
- Publish Date 18 December 1996 (first published 1 September 1994)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition 1996 ed.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 217
- Language English