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Feminist discourse, and particularly the struggle to include the element of choice in women’s lives and to undo the social construction of gender, are new developments in Iran. However, striving for increased access for women to society’s resources and to improve the quality of women’s lives and their legal status is not new.
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Moghissi, H. (1993). Women in the Resistance Movement in Iran. In: Afshar, H. (eds) Women in the Middle East. Women’s Studies at York Series . Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22588-0_9
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