Hijab, Woman and Social Movment in contemporary Iran

Hijab as one of the core component of Islamic republic of Iran‘s discourse obliged woman put on veil all in public place. After revolution of Feb 1979, veil as a tradition-common cloth for woman has been changed to a formal dress for them in public. During this long time after revolution, hijab considered as a sign of acceptances of Islamic approach in a family, and it was important for social acceptance. After all, Hijab, by compulsory putting women in veil due to hide their body from others is a harsh implementation of sex segregation, which reproduces the signs of dominant discourse in Islamic republic of Iran.

Resistance against dominant discourse is one of the main factors of social movement and groups that try to changes the rules in order to support people and groups whom considered as minorities. And women social movement has always attention to hijab due to restrain it as an individual rights, not an obliged rule implemented by law.

Implementation of law always shows some loosening before elections and enforcement after it. And social movement groups usually try best to achieve their demands during elections. In fact they try to use this loosening and challenge the existing order to legitimatize their demands.

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