Overview
Eighteen months after Irans Islamic Revolution in 1979, hundreds of thousands of the countrys women participated in the Iran-Iraq War (198088) in a variety of capacities. Iran was divided into women of conservative religious backgrounds who supported the revolution and accepted some of the theocratic regimes depictions of gender roles, and liberal women more active in civil society before the revolution who challenged the states male-dominated gender bias. However, both groups were integral to the war effort, serving as journalists, paramedics, combatants, intelligence officers, medical instructors, and propagandists. Behind the frontlines, women were drivers, surgeons, fundraisers, and community organizers. The war provided women of all social classes the opportunity to assert their role in society, and in doing so, they refused to be marginalized. Despite their significant contributions, women are largely absent from studies on the war. Drawing upon primary sources such as memoirs, wills, interviews, print media coverage, and oral histories, Farzaneh chronicles in copious detail womens participation on the battlefield, in the household, and everywhere in between.
- | Author: Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh
- | Publisher: USYRC
- | Publication Date: February 22, 2021
- | Number of Pages: 500 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0815637101
- | ISBN-13: 9780815637103
