{"id":135,"date":"2018-10-26T12:52:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T16:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/?p=135"},"modified":"2018-10-26T12:52:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T16:52:50","slug":"women-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/uncategorized\/women-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Women in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Western attempt to impose a strict dichotomy on gender is a perfect example of a phenomenon James C. Scott describes in his work,\u00a0<em>Seeing Like a State.\u00a0<\/em>Scott explains that through looking to classify and render the world intelligible, the state attempts exercise control and domination. Similarly, by internalizing Western conceptions of a gender binary, Iranians implicitly submit to Western cultural control while also exercising domination over their own population. As women are now classified in direct opposition to men, so too are they rights and standing in Iran. Women are rendered second class citizens to be controlled and dominated, a phenomenon that came about in its present form with the advent of the attempts to modernize Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Rather provocatively, Najmabadi argues that the feminist project has actively worked to erase the history of this gender-fluid past. Najmabadi argues that this project has worked towards the &#8220;disavowal, denial, and eradication of male homoeroticism\u201d (235). In that way, feminists in Iran have indirectly worked to create the tools of their own oppression. Najmabai&#8217;s account of this history serves as a reminder to not reify social constructs, particularly the place of women in Iranian society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Western attempt to impose a strict dichotomy on gender is a perfect example of a phenomenon James C. Scott describes in his work,\u00a0Seeing Like a State.\u00a0Scott explains that through looking to classify and render the world intelligible, the state &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/uncategorized\/women-in-iran\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1893,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1893"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}