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"Lyrical, intelligent, and passionately written, Whisper Tapes reignites a long dormant conversation about the urgency of global feminism." âShilyh Warren, University of Texas at Dallas Kate Millett was already an icon of American feminism when she went to Iran in 1979. She arrived just weeks after the Iranian Revolution, to join Iranian women in marking International Women's Day. Intended as a day of celebration, the event turned into a week of protests. Millett, armed with film equipment and a cassette deck to record everything around her, found herself in the middle of demonstrations for women's rights and against the mandatory veil. Listening to the revolutionary soundscape of Millett's audio tapes, Negar Mottahedeh offers a new interpretive guide to Revolutionary Iran, its slogans, habits, and women's movementâa movement that, many claim, Millett never came to understand. Published with the fortieth anniversary of the Iranian Revolution and the women's protests that followed on its heels, Whisper Tapes re-introduces Millett's historic visit to Iran and lays out the nature of her encounter with the Iranian women's movement. "In offering a deeply contingent history, Negar Mottahedeh beautifully shows Kate Millett's simultaneous closeness to and distance from the events surrounding her." âBehrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, Princeton University "Lyrical in style and poetic in meaning, Whisper Tapes challenges readers to adopt an intersectional view of Iranian feminist movements while adding layers and dimensionality to Millett's preexisting literature." ââAisha Jitan, The Middle East Journal "Mottahedeh's illuminating study complements Millett's work and offers a more nuanced reading of a historic moment." âLucy Popescu, Times Literary Supplement
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- A Revolutionary Timeline
- Overture
- I A Azadi Freedom
- II B Beauvoir
- III P Pahlavi
- IV T Tehran
- V S Servat Wealth
- VI J Jaryan Flow
- VII CH Chaghaleh badoom Unripe Almonds
- VIII H Hamleh Attack
- IX KH Khomeini
- X D Durud Salute
- XI Z Zat Instinct
- XII R Rooznameh Newspaper
- XIII Z Zan Woman
- XIV ZH Zhornalist Journalist
- XV S Surud Anthem
- XVI SH Schoenman
- XVII S do-Sefr Si-Sad-o-Si-yo Yek 00331
- XVIII Z Zabt Recording
- XIX T Tuluâ Dawn
- XX Z Zaher Appearance
- XXI âAYN Eid Festival
- XXII GH Ghazal Ode
- XXIII F Fallaci
- XXIV Q Qom
- XXV K Kooh Mountain
- XXVI G Guruh-ha Womenâs Groups
- XXVII L Lisans Bachelorâs Degree
- XXVIII M Mard Man
- XXIX N Nafas Breath
- XXX V Vafadari
- XXXI H Hasht 8
- XXXII Y Yavash Slowly
- Coda
- Acknowledgments
- Notes