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In this article I will argue that in the last years the way of thinking about gender has undergone a change. I believe that in the Iranian public discourse, ‘the woman question’ has come to be viewed as part of the question of democracy. This is a recent development; until very recently, women’s legal discrimination was perceived in Iranian discourse as a ‘women’s only’ problem.
This article originally appeared in Philosophy & Social Criticism (vol. 39, Nos. 4–5), pp. 407–415, Copyright © 2013 by (Special Issue: Alessandro Ferrara , Volker Kaul , David Rasmussen (eds.), “The Promises of Democracy in Troubled Times. Reset-Dialogues İstanbul Seminars 2012”). Reprinted by Permission of SAGE Publications, Ltd.
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Amirpur, K. (2016). Women’s Problems as a ‘Women’s Only’ Problem? Debates on Gender and Democracy in Iran. In: Benhabib, S., Kaul, V. (eds) Toward New Democratic Imaginaries - İstanbul Seminars on Islam, Culture and Politics. Philosophy and Politics - Critical Explorations, vol 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41821-6_27
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