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‍Womens Gender Roles In Iran -Kaiyah Bible

The complex relationship between women and Islam is defined by Islamic texts, the history and culture of the muslim world. The Qur'an or their holy book states that both men and women are equal that "Men are the protectors and maintainers of women because God has given the one more strength than the other and because they support them from their means. Therefore the righteous women are devoutly obedient and guard in the husband's absence what God would have them guard." ‍

In this of the twenty first century women in Iran have gained some new found freedom or rights. Such as women gained new rights in the first half of the twentieth century through education, employment, and unveiling differences between "radical modernist" and "technocratic modernist" were made smaller. Convergence could take place because, in fact, neither group was concerned with women's individual rights, including sexual emancipation; neither could they come to terms with the extensive shift in gender roles that a feminist agenda implied. In the second half of the twentieth century, radical intellectuals who had been committed to modernist ideas, including a greater social economic, and political rights for women became disillusions with western democracy and feminism. At the same time the "antimodernist" religious discourse came to embrace technological and industrial modernization as well as a anti-imperialist.The convergence of these multiple discourses on the problematic of modernity in a nationalist alliance made the 1979 revolution possible with war toward feminism.

After the revolution of Iran was complete and the Islamic Republic firmly in place, changes began to take place. Reforms were made in practically all spheres of life- social, economic and legal. Many of these changes placed women at the forefront of politics. Just as women played an important role in the eye of the public during the Pahlavi regime, these same women were scrutinized under the Islamic Republic. Many Western feminists are up in arms, claiming that women have suffered a huge draw back under the Islamic Republic and are using a select group of urban middle class women as a reference for all of Iran. Women's roles underwent some very fundamental changes both before and after the Islamic Revolution. Once Khomeini was in power, he made sure that the Family Rights Act (FPA) was repealed. The FPA had given women certain legal rights that they didn't possess before and with the removal of the Shah, those rights disappeared. However, the matter is not so clear cut, since many of these women were never aware of their rights especially rural women and many of the rights were never enforced. So in actuality many of these women did not lose that much power. media type="youtube" key="ZnSy1JlCYtU" width="317" height="212" This is a video of Iranian women talking about gender roles after the revolution.