Abstract
This essay focuses on the Iranian woman’s veil from various perspectives including cultural, social, religious, aesthetic, as well as political to better understand this object of clothing with multiple interpretive meanings. The veil and veiling are uniquely imbued with layers of meanings serving multiple agendas. Sometimes the function of veiling is contradictory in that it can serve equally opposing political agendas.
Highlights
This essay focuses on the Iranian woman’s veil from various perspectives including cultural, social, religious, aesthetic, as well as political to better understand this object of clothing with multiple interpretive meanings
We read in Persian: When Basijis [who receive their orders from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)
I have benefited from journalistic publications both in English and Persian, in addition to observing several Iranian parliamentary discussions on YouTube and following the outcome of decisions on any new ruling about women in the public space as it relates to her appearance and clothing regulations in addition to any other new legal actions pertaining to women
Summary
In this paper, following the feminist theory, I focus on the idea that the hijab has always been used to control and further implement the unequal status of women by misusing Islam and its interpretations, as we will see in the following pages in this study
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