The #MeToo Movement in Iran

Claudia Yaghoobi is a Roshan Institute Associate Professor in Persian Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. She is the author of Temporary Marriage in Iran: Gender and Body Politics in Modern Iranian Literature and Film (2020) and Subjectivity in ‘Attar, Persian Sufism, and European Mysticism (2017).

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Prologue: #MeToo Movement and Redefining the Private Sphere Ziba Jalali Naini
Introduction: Bodies, Spaces, and Places Claudia Yaghoobi

1 Like a Wrapped Chocolate: The Islamic Republic’s Politics of Hijab and the Normalization of Sexual Harassment Esha Momeni
2 The Iranian #MeToo and the Double Bind of Iranian Feminism: Between Religion, the Global Gender Struggle, and Liberal Feminism Dilyana Mincheva and Niloofar Hooman
3 Rhetorical Listening to the Iranian #MeToo Movement in Diaspora Yalda N. Hamidi
4 Structural and Material Considerations and the Nexus of Power and Sexuality in the Iranian #MeToo Movement Mahdi Tourage
5 Twitter Data Analysis on #MeTooIran Yasamin Rezai and Mehdy Sedaghat Payam
6 #Unveiling_the_Iranian_MeToo: Symptomatic Reading of Iranian MeToo through the Lens of Political Economy Paria Rahimi
7 Whose Voice Is Missing? MeToo Digital Storytelling on Instagram and the Politics of Inclusion Golnar Gishnizjani
8 Sexual Violence, MeToo, and Iranian Lesbians’ Censored Voices Mahdis Sadeghipouya
9 The White-Collars’ New Masculinities in #MeToo: How to Maintain Gendered Privileges? Somayeh Rostampour
10 Hush! Girls Don’t Scream (2013) by Puran Derakhshandeh and the #MeToo Movement in Iran Maryam Zehtabi
Afterword: Patriarchalism, Male Abuse, and the Sources of the #MeToo Movement in the Muslim Middle East Roger Friedland, Janet Afary, and Charlotte Hoppen

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