The #MeToo Movement in Iran

Reporting Sexual Violence and Harassment

Claudia Yaghoobi

• Publisher: I.B. Tauris
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9780755647279
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Gender Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

The Iranian #MeToo movement was a crucial form of resistance, with ordinary Iranian women sharing their experiences of sexual harassment and assault in the public sphere of digital media. This is the first book of its kind providing a comprehensive analysis of the Iranian #MeToo movement. Based on archival, empirical, ethnographic, literary and cultural research, the contributors discuss the abuse of women and society's responses to it. Contextualizing the historical framework of Iranian MeToo activism within larger Iranian feminist movements, as well as the historical background within the context of Middle East, the contributors address how the privileged position of men who have been outed as rapists, helps them to aggregate social, political, sexual, and economic capital through various networks in order to delegitimize the narratives of survivors. The volume also covers the intersections of various systems of oppression specifically highlighting marginalized voices. The contributors highlight the power dynamics within digital feminist networks in Iran and its unique attributes due to political, social, and religious structures. The volume ends with a chapter focusing on cultural productions, specifically cinematic works, through which some filmmakers have challenged normalizations of
sexual harassment by offering alternative discourses which have arguably paved the way for the #MeToo in Iran movement.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title Page
• Dedication Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Note on Transliteration and Translation
• Prologue: #MeToo Movement and Redefining the Private Sphere
• Introduction: Introduction: Bodies, Spaces, and Places
• 1 Like a Wrapped Chocolate: The Islamic Republic’s Politics of Hijab and the Normalization of Sexual Harassment
• 2 The Iranian #MeToo and the Double Bind of Iranian Feminism: Between Religion, the Global Gender Struggle, and Liberal Feminism
• 3 Rhetorical Listening to the Iranian #MeToo Movement in Diaspora
• 4 Structural and Material Considerations and the Nexus of Power and Sexuality in the Iranian #MeToo Movement
• 5 Twitter Data Analysis on #MeTooIran
• 6 #Unveiling_the_Iranian_MeToo: Symptomatic Reading of Iranian MeToo through the Lens of Political Economy
• 7 Whose Voice Is Missing? MeToo Digital Storytelling on Instagram and the Politics of Inclusion1
• 8 Sexual Violence, MeToo, and Iranian Lesbians’ Censored Voices
• 9 The White-Collars’ New Masculinities in #MeToo: How to Maintain Gendered Privileges?
• 10 Hush! Girls Don’t Scream (2013) by Puran Derakhshandeh and the #MeToo Movement in Iran
• Afterword: Patriarchalism, Male Abuse, and the Sources of the #MeToo Movement in the Muslim Middle East
• Notes
• Bibliography
• List of Contributors
• Index
• Copyright Page