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Article: Women in Iran Since 1979.
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- Social Research
- Article date:
- June 22, 2000
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ALTHOUGH all countries are unique, Iran may have claim to more surprising political changes in the past century than any other country existing continuously during that period. Among these changes have been notable alterations in women's roles and status. The birth of urban mass politics during the constitutional revolution of 1906-11 saw women's first political activism, which continued after World War I, though that independence was eventually much diminished under the new Pahlavi dynasty of Reza Shah (1921-41) (Afary, 1996; Bayat, 1978; Paidar, 1995; Sanasarian, 1982). Reza Shah forcibly unveiled women in the 1936-41 period, thus going further than his model, Ataturk, ...