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Submitted in partial fulfillment of the degree of Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Abstract: This thesis proposes to unravel the paradox of women's rights activism in Iran through a critical examination of women's rights activities starting in the time of the Shah and continuing into the first twenty years of the Islamic Revolution. It will consider ... read morethe reasons why women were not able to retain the legal rights they achieved during the Shah's regime, once the Islamic Republic emerged after the revolution. In contrast, despite the imposition of restrictive Islamic laws following the revolution, women's rights activism has continued to flourish and today, women have emerged as a deliberate and indigenous constituency in their own right. Unraveling the paradox means studying the factors and events that have shaped women's activism in Iran and realizing that despite changing political contexts and changing strategic tactics, the basic demands and desires of women in Iran have remained basically the same for the past forty years.read less
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