In contemporary Iranian society, sexuality is regulated by traditional cultural restrictions, prohibitions, taboos, and indirect regulations due to the country’s traditional and highly religious culture. The traditional restrictions on cross-sex associations are one of the many limitations that regulate the relationship between the sexes. Socialization processes are gendered as a consequence of there being different […]
The right to the city – conceptualized by Henry Lefebvre – consists of two-component: the right to appropriate spaces and participate in processes therein. Appropriation is referred to as having a share of the space, using it, owning it, and valuing it because it has use value (as opposed to exchange value), while participation in […]
Iranian sociological streams and trends are, as in some other eastern countries, deeply affected and dominated by western scholars’ thoughts and theories. The centers, which are variable relative to the peripheral contexts, export theories and approaches, in the case of Iran, mostly through translation of American and British books and articles, for which we provide […]
Violence against women is still happening around the world, generating physical and psychological pain and disability for many of its victims. Violence in premarital relationships is an implicit aspect of violence against girls and women in Iranian society. Young girls who get involved in premarital relationships are very vulnerable to all forms of violence due […]
Sexual violence and victimization continues to be a significant problem worldwide. The patriarchal value system is helping the continuation of the problem by providing cultural justifications for abuse. This paper explores some patriarchal sexual attitudes leading to the physical health problems of married women in urban Iran. This is done by analyzing data from in-depth […]
Months ago, in a class of my doctorate program, a male classmate and the professor started a discussion about educated women’s relative ugliness claiming that women who enter higher education are uglier than the less educated. After participation in this debate, I wondered if women are always judged by their appearances regardless of their accomplishments. […]
Many young women in Iran experience sexual disturbance and molestation in urban public spaces. Still, they usually do not refer to the police to report the abuse or ask for help willingly, even in critical cases like acute sexual attacks. This research was conducted among 47 young women sexually victimized in Tehran. Semi-structured interviews were […]
The right to the city is a concept introduced by Henry Lefebvre in the 1960s and further developed by David Harvey. It refers to the freedom to construct and reconstruct the city and us all together; it consists of the right to entirely appropriate spaces and participate in all processes therein. Appropriation is referred to […]
Women have never achieved an equal status as men in the history of scientific work. Historical study of women’s roles and participation in the world and Iran shows that there is not a significant distinction between western women and Iranian women’s status in scientific work until the last decades of the nineteenth century. Before this […]
The difference between death and Martyrdom in Iranian-Islamic culture is an irrefutable fact. Death is considered to be an inevitable fact, while martyrdom is considered to be a passage to the highest stages of human accomplishment. Devotion and self-sacrifice are critical concepts for understanding the discourse of martyrdom in Iranian culture. Although the concept of […]