In My American Photograph, I Want Address Gender Equality

During the Iranian Revolution in 1979 transformed Iran’s political,social,and economic structure. Secular Laws were replaced with Islamic laws creating an outburst. Women were often abused,raped,treated as slaves,and accused of false imprisonment. These tortures things that most women had to face are against the Islamic religion.

English essay The degradation of woman in media harmful to the cause for woman's rights Isn't it funny, how no matter where you decide to plot yourself on the globe, woman are constantly facing objectification? Even though we live in a century were both sexes are meant to be seen and treated as equal citizens. So why are females being treated differently to their male counterparts? And why is it when faced with the question " what makes perfect female" most minds automatically paint the picture of 5'10 girl with size eight clothing, weighting no more than 110 pounds with perfect skin and hair, that's what you were thinking right?

He became a hero and began to enforce the rules. He was the man who forbid women from leaving their homes without wearing a chador. Instead of Iran meeting its goal of overcoming oppression, they became a dictatorship once again. When Neshat visited Iran, and saw the progress of the country, she used photographs like Rebellious Silence to show the world that the revolution didn’t change society, but changed the outlook on women. The image seized a visual account of the people and events of Neshat’s time and

On August 19, 1953, the American CIA helped to overthrow a democratically elected prime minister in Iran-Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh, who was elected in 1950-and restored the Shah to his Monarchical leadership position (“A short account of 1953 Coup”). The Shah was a modernizer for Iran in many respects, promoting the growth of a modern economy and a middle class, and championing women's rights. He outlawed the hijab, which is the full-body veil that women are to wear, according to Islamic law; encouraged education for women up to and including at the university level; and championed employment opportunities outside the home for women. The Shah was restored to his Monarchical leadership position

The visual analysis I chose is of Rosie the Riveter, the “We Can Do It!” poster. This poster went around during the World War II to encourage all women to fill the jobs located in a factory named Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. An artist by the name of J. Howard Miller first created this in 1942. His reason was to build confidence by others who misunderstood women’s rights. Representing women in early 1940’s wartime workforce produced Rosie’s character that served as a cultural icon during this time. Today it serves as a feminist icon by exalting women in various contexts in which experience inequality.

Therefore the situation Neshat saw at that time in Iran which women facing many struggles and oppressed made her to create political artworks revealing negative view on it’s religion. (Women of Allah Series are part of them. And as she wasn’t in Iran while revolution happened, Neshat can definitely feel the transformation of lives in countries, especially women’s lives after the revolution.

Sometimes pictures are the only way to get someone's point across, but is it truthfully accurate. These picture may seem like ordinary pictures but they have meaning behind them. In this essay pictures are all throughout and some will show the accurate representation of Iran while others will not. Revolutions, Imperialism,and Nationalism are ways that represent Iran as well as Religion and Social class.

Stranded in America by the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran, Neshat returned to her country in 1990 for the first time. She found this journey extremely shocking, due to the huge amount of difference in Iranian costumes and social behavior, between the after revolution time, and what she could remember.” I had never been in a country that was so ideologically based” . She could remember that chador- a black veil that covers most of the body except the face- in a movement against the Shah’s dictatorship and the influences of the Western beauty industry, was adopted by educated feminists in the 1960s and 1970s, and now many women treated the chador as a captive uniform.

The Islamic revolution in Iran brought many changes, it affected everyone in one way or another. The women were affected the most by these new radical changes, as the author states “little did I know that I would be soon given the choice of either veiling or being jailed, flogged and perhaps killed if I disobeyed” (Nafisi 152). In earlier years women were free to do as they wished. Reading The Great Gatsby showed them just how much the differences were since In the

Satrapi shows how femininity and gender ideals was used as an encouragement to support the revolution objectives. The revolutionary leaders needed a motive to make people strongly believe in the revolution, religion and gender was used as the main motive and to strengthen the passion. For instance, in Persepolis, women were depicted as guardians of the nation since they are understood to be the careers of tradition through motherhood. The Islamic regime used the cultural norms and turned women into a symbolic cultural base. Over the course of Persepolis, we see other different examples used by Satrapi like her teachers who seemed brainwashed by the Islamic regime Ideas (96). Fae Chubin’s “When my virtue defends your borders” shows how the 1979 revolutionary leaders’ speeches emphasized that women chastity and devotional motherhood are pivotal to the protection of the nation, its independence and its future. He uses the post-revolution interviews, speeches and writings by revolutionary leaders in the context of a historical review of gender politics and gender discourses in Iran by looking specifically into the ways in which gender is narrated and how traditional notions of femininity in the Islamic gender discourse became reconstructed and contested through those narrations. As an example, one of the revolutionary leaders Olama, said “this shameful unveiling… this basin-shape cap, the cast-off of the foreigners, is a shame to the country of

women that needed to cover up. The women of Iran are dress restricted, well depending what area they happen to be in. Women in Iran are superior to their man, view more as a piece of property that belong to a man for pleasure.

In reviewing the history of Iran, it is true what Neshat said in the Ted Talk video that Iran had a somewhat democratic government for a few years prior to 1953. However, I found that her belief that the US was the cause of the Islamic Revolution more opinion than fact. With the help or direction of the CIA the Shah was placed in charge of Iran from 1953-1978. He was of Islamic faith but did not create a theocracy. During this time Iran’s economy prospered due to the production of

By exploring Iranian womanhood, Neshat is simultaneously exploring political and ideological structures that are unbeknownst to her after she went into exile during the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Due to her observations, Iranian women are characteristic to be the embodiment of Iran’s political transformation” and therefore also explores her personal identity (Neshat, “Art in Exile”). According to lecturer Susan Funkenstein, Rapture is presented unto two screens to convey that as Western viewers, we aren’t able to get the entire picture culturally just as we cannot physically with our focus being split on which side to focus on (Funkenstein,"Globalization”). Aside from gender, there is the dimension of location and its meaning in regards to the

The emergence of the Islamic Republic in late 1970’s Iran demonstrates how middle class Iranian people purged themselves of the Pahlavi Dynasty in an effort to continue down a more righteous and egalitarian path. As a result, the country underwent a complete social upheaval and in its place grew an overtly oppressive regime based in theoretical omnipotence. In response to this regime, the very structure of political and social life was shaken and fundamentally transformed as religion and politics became inexorable. As a result, gender roles and the battle between public and private life were redrawn. Using various primary and secondary sources I will show how the Revolution shaped secular middle class Iranians. Further, I will show how the

The following paper will be an evaluation of Iranian artist and the role they play as women living in exile. The paper will discuss how art becomes a type of political discourse against patriarchal governments. To do this I will look at the work of Parastou Forohaur an Iranian artist whose parents were killed when she was young because they were political activist fighting to defend the rights of all people women and men included. In the paper I will use various sources and terms that have been discussed throughout the semester in a short literature review. Shirin Neshat will also be discussed and the role that she plays in created fragmented narratives that help women feel empowered in their lives in Iran.