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Axis of Hope - Iranian Women's Rights Activism across Borders (Hardcover)
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Axis of Hope - Iranian Women's Rights Activism across Borders (Hardcover)
Series: Decolonizing Feminisms
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Political tensions between Iran and the United States in the
post-9/11 period and the Global War on Terror have set the stage
for Iranian women's rights activists inside and outside Iran as
they seek full legal equality under the Islamic Republic. Axis of
Hope recounts activists' struggles through critical analysis of
their narratives, including the One Million Signatures Campaign to
End Discriminatory Law, the memoirs of human rights lawyer and
Nobel Prize-winner Shirin Ebadi, and the life story of feminist
Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh and her activist project ZananTV.
Catherine Sameh examines how Iranian women's rights activists have
cultivated ways of thinking of and being with each other that
rupture the relentless difference-making and violence of
coloniality through local and transnational networks along axes of
feminist solidarity, friendship, and love. Crucial to countering
despair and cynicism about Iran as well as the dangerous
interventions by Western powers "on behalf of" Iranians, activists'
experiences speak to the possibilities and challenges of
transnational alliances in confronting oppressive regimes. These
stories are particularly germane in such precarious times, marked
by war, isolation, sanctions, and the intense demonization of
Iranians and Muslims, as well as authoritarianism, militarism, and
patriarchal nationalisms around the world. Situating postreform
women's rights activism within the unfolding, decades-long project
to democratize Iran from within, Axis of Hope makes a timely
contribution to studies of feminist movements, women's human rights
in Muslim contexts, activism and new media, and the relationship
between activism, civil society, and the state.
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