Katie Atkinson's A War On Women

The Question of Gender, the Question of Equality ! Gender inequality has been a constant facet of Iranian society for many years, as an Islamic state, the role and treatment of women is based on interpretation of Islamic law (Shari'a). The change derived from the downfall of the Pahlavi regime and subsequent Iranian revolution of 1979 dramatically effected the nature and extent of the rights and quality of life experienced by Iranian women. The reign of Pahlavi as Shah saw women's rights reach new capabilities - for example in 1963, regardless to objections by religious clerics women were granted the capability to vote and run for parliament . While these laws saw great improvements in gender equality, they did not 1 guarantee it's

The article, The Cult of Womanhood: 1820 - 1860 written by Barbara Welter discusses the philosophy towards women in America during the mid 19th century. A set of demands and expectations based upon four principles: piety, purity, submission and domesticity were placed on women as well as certain behavioral expectations left 19th century women feeling guilty. It also left women feeling this way during the industrialization period as well as having a huge presence of incompatibility with society. Welter shares her viewpoint that the Cult of Womanhood was an attempt to preserve pre modern values in the industrial age. Men held a dominant place in society and continued to prevent new opportunities for women to explore. Narrow minded

The historical evolution of feminism is reflected in the content of Woolf's A Room of One's Own, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex and Glaspell's Trifles. The connection of these text shows in greater detail the impacts on overlooked harassment, oppressing women by discriminating aganist them, oppressing them fundamentally and physically, causing a lack of identity among women. The diverse and complex theme of feminism and oppression throughout history is shown in all three text yet takes place in different geographic locations and time periods. A worldwide issue such as oppressing of women has been over looked for many centuries, which is why we still continue to see this problem arise. Imagine not beginning able to be the woman you were born to be, instead your defined as an “other” or property of your husband.

These women have to adjust to their new lives in this society, and if they do not cooperate the punishment could be severe. Each of these women has a new role in society “with no hope of ever breaking free of these roles except through prostitution, exile, or death” (Callaway, Chapter 2). Instead of sticking together and fighting back, the women conform to the new society and create “a new form of misogyny, not as we usually think of it, as men’s hatred of women, but as women’s hatred of women” (Callaway, Chapter 1). In this world, oppression of men against women is not the problem, but oppression of women against

Muslim women in Iran got treated very badly, they didn’t have no rights. They weren’t really free, they were forced to marry men, they were forced to do things out of their will. women got arrested for basic things like not wearing their veil, or robe that covered their body, or certain amount of makeup. A Muslim woman got arrested for wearing red socks.

Discrimination against women is common, not only in Iran, but in other countries as well. And the fact that the Islamic Republic, the result of the 1979 Revolution, oppresses and mistreats women as much as they do make the very few things it did in favor to women, negligible. While women are being abused and punished and oppressed, men are being given privileges. Men can have four permanent wives and unlimited temporary ones, the right to divorce, full custody of children, and sexual violence was a passing event. All of these cruel and unusual restrictions on women were a result of the insecurity and misogyny of the Islamic regime.

There is violence against women that is executed by man and this is what the talk discussed. In the past decades, men have dominated over women by many excuses such as religion, culture, and norm. Through all these years they used women and they harass them mentally and physically. In my culture, we have so many differences between men and women. I have to mention that the Iranian government rule based on the Islamic laws. Which is supporting more men rather than women, and because of that men getting more power than women. In fact, men can do whatever they want to do with the women in Iran society.

I thought most of the women were content or satisfied with the way they lived because of their loyalty to Islamic traditions. However, there is a fight for women's rights in Iran and many women that now have more access to education are realizing the rights they have been deprived of. Gradually, women rights are gaining more awareness and Iranians are working towards them by challenging the government and their traditional ideologies. The policies that oppress women are considered an ancient way of order and will not change immediately, but they are on their way to changing. So far, education access has increased, postitions have been opened, and dress code has been relaxed

The British Parliament 's passing of the Contagious Disease Acts in 1866 resulted in Josephine Butler writing a letter to the International Convention of Women in Washington. The purpose of the act was to reduce prostitution and sexually transmitted diseases, specifically occurring within the military forces. Butler’s letter included topics, arguments, and political issues women had to work on even though they were not given the right to vote or engage in politics.

These basic and primitive rules that were ingrained in us by nature have been the essence of human civilization. Over the last hundred years, these rules have been broken. Man, through the female protests, were now starting to see that women were so much more than home makers who were being pushed around by man for ages. Women’s voices were starting to be heard. For too long has society deemed what was right for women (whose laws were written by man)? As women gained rights, so did man’s perception on women start to gain more respect. From the days of “Rosie the Riveter”, when women were involved in what was once man’s work, keeping the workforce going at home while the majority of men were off at WWII. To today, where women have almost as many rights as men, the view of society has changed and evolved. Nowadays, it seems that these once set in stone rules are being broken.

This anger at the women’s movement is not new. It has plagued feminism throughout history. R.M Janes in her work, “On the Reception of Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” says, “Perhaps it all began over two hundred years ago when Horace Walpole called Mary Wollstone¬craft a ‘hyena in petticoats’” (Janes 299). It is not surprising anymore that not only men, but women too have become misogynistic. What is patriarchy’s biggest win is perhaps the internalization of the various norms that the society makes women live by. Bartky has explained this idea of invisible chains that women have adorned through Jeremy Bentham’s idea of the ‘Panopticon’, where quoting Foucault’s Discipline and Punishment, she says that with the “‘state

The status of women in Iran not only holds them down but it affects their children. “Children born of Women in Iran are treated as second class citizens and can be rejected from getting their citizenship.” Men have all authority over women in Iran. If a woman is married, her husband has the authority and if not it is her father. “The father is the natural guardian who can marry off his daughter; even if the girl is an adult, she cannot marry someone on her own.” Muslim men can marry women from other religions but women can not marry non Muslims unless the man converts to Islam. The tamkin law is a law that is the full accessibility and sexual availability of the woman to her husband. Sexual availability is considered a woman's duty and a man's right. The husband can prevent his wife from an occupation or technical profession.. In family law and inheritance rules women only receive half as much as their brothers or other male relatives. Even if a husband dies, the wife will receive only one - eighth of the inheritance if she has a child. The law also prevents women from being judges. Women are not allowed to leave the country without permission. They can not even obtain a passport without the consent of their husbands. They have no control over their bodies and a man can divorce his wife whenever he wishes.When it comes to criminal law in Islamic law of Iran, girls can be held criminally

Whilst violence against women predates the existence of Capitalism, the Industrial Revolution and the introduction of private property in our society introduced a new type of systemic violence against women. The Industrial Revolution, which allowed for material goods to be produced with a surplus, transformed the structure of family into a highly patriarchal one in which women are essentially dependent on men. In this Capitalistic and patriarchal system, the nuclear family is idealized and women are turned into property that is vital for the preservation of those who own the means of production (class notes, date).

The Islamic revolution in 1979 changed different parts of Iranian life. For women, the outcomes were great and substantial and it was a huge change in their social roles, including how they must dress and relate to men and what they could study.In fact,the Islamic Republic turned the chador, worn by some feminists in anti-shah demonstrations, into a mandatory form of dress.As a matter of fact,the clothing and modesty had different definition in different Islamic countries and absolutely it has changed over the time.In the Middle East, the stage for this state of affairs was set over a century. In Turkey, Iran, and Egypt the turn of the century was a moment of intense preoccupation with women and family.The arguments that would later be explained

In the iranian revolution in 1979 women in iran suddenly lost the majority of the rights that they had fought for over the past century.