Review: Iranian Women and Gender In the Iran- Iraq War by Mateo Md Farzaneh
Hindustan TimesA war, big or small, can transform a society beyond recognition. This book is the first major academic study of women’s role and contribution to the Iran-Iraq war that lasted eight years. 457pp; Syracuse University Press The objectives of this volume are two-fold: firstly, to examine women’s role in the Iran-Iraq war, and secondly, to look at how gender roles were impacted in post-war Iran owing to the participation of women in the war. War created conditions of helplessness, which forced Iran’s conservative Islamic regime to reluctantly withdraw its patriarchal tentacles, and let women evolve their emancipatory trajectories. Basiji women carrying G-3 automatic assault rifles march in a Tehran rally on 12 February 1987 towards the end of the eight year long Iran-Iraq war.
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