| The Iranian Revolution of 1979 created distinct revolutionary practices that involved cultural debate in everyday life. Revolutionary leaders like Ayatollah Khomeini empowered ordinary people by informing them it was their duty as individual Muslims to overthrow the Shah. This sense of individual duty and revolutionary patterns carried over into the modern women's activist movement. By closely examining the arguments and methods of two female Post-Revolutionary reformers, it will become apparent how each woman felt a sense of personal responsibility to become a social activist and followed a consistent resistance pattern that was drawn from her own unique revolutionary experience.;Sources for this research included articles, books, and memoirs published by my two subjects. These were supplemented by interviews and speeches given at several venues. Because Iran is under economic sanction by the U.S., this author had to rely primarily on electronic resources.;This abstract of 142 words is approved as to form and content. |
