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A Tough Place to be a Woman with a Cause - Discusses Shirin Ebadi, an Iranian women's rights lawyer and Iran's first woman judge before the revolution. [Christian Science Monitor]
 
Amazons of the Iranian Opposition - By Emad S. Mekay about the women in the National Liberation Army. [Middle East Times]
 
Bargaining with Fundamentalism: Women and the Politics of Population Control in Iran - Article by Homa Hoodfar from the Global Reproductive Health Forum.
 
Feminist Movements in the Islamic Republic - Article by Ziba Mir-Hosseini, social anthropogist, freelance researcher and consultant.
 
Independence Day: Women Rule a Village - Article by Parivash Berenji and Parisa Tashakori about a village in Iran where women rule one day a year.
 
Iranian Women and Girls: Victims of Violence and Exploitation - By Sarvnaz Chitsaz and Soona Samsami. Chapter from "Making the Harm Visible: Global Sexual Exploitation of Women and Girls", edited by Donna M. Hughes and Claire M. Roche.
 
Islamic Women's Games Open Under Veil in Iran - [Middle East Times]
 
Khatami and the Status of Women in Iran - By Donna Hughes, director of the Women's Studies Program at the University of Rhode Island. [Z Magazine]
 
Post-revolutionary Iran: Islamic Feminism and the Crisis of Civil Society - By Elham Gheytanchi. [Center For Comparative Social Analysis, UCLA]
 
Postcard From Mashad -- Young Afghan-American Woman Found Iran Was - Point of view by Fariba Najab. [Pacific News Service]
 
Right to Choose: First Protests Against Mandatory Hijab - Photo essay compiled by Pedram Missaghi showing women protesting against the manditory hijab in Iran in the first weeks after the 1979 revolution. [Iranian]
 
Second class: The Legal Status of Iranian Women - Paper by Mehrangiz Kar prepared for a conference organized by Dialogue and Action between the People of Iran and America. [Iranian]
 
Tahirih: Babi and Women's Right's Martyr - How a 19th century Persian poetess affected the women's suffrage movement.
 
The Contending Discourses on Women in Iran - Article by Farideh Farhi describing the various obstacles that Iranian women face in their struggle for equality.
 
The Iranian Revolution Turned Against Women Who Supported It - Article by Tayana Marshall from The McGill Daily.
 
The Iranian: Women - Several feature articles about women from The Iranian online magazine.
 
The Islamic Revolution's Impact on the Legal and Social Status of Iranian Women - By Kourosh Eshghipour. [New England International and Comparative Law Annual]
 
The Veiled Threat: Iranian Theocracy's Fear of Females - By Azar Nafisi.[The New Republic Online]
 
Women and the Politics of Fundamentalism in Iran - Response to Haleh Afshar's article of the same name by Mandana Hendessi and Rouhi Shafii.
 
Women and the Politics of Fundamentalism in Iran - Response to Haleh Afshar's article of the same name by Mandana Hendessi and Rouhi Shafii.
 
 

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