Master's thesis

The contentious body: On representation of woman's body in the Iranian public sphere

Elaheh Mohammadi, BS
Abstract

Práce se zabývá ženskými právy v souvislosti s modernizací oděvu v Íránu. Používá diskurzivní analýzu.

Abstract

Woman and her rights as "the clothes of modernization" has been the battlefield for discourses of power since the advent of modernization in Iran. They have approached the concept in various ways from the perspective of western culture to perception of the Iranian and Islamic culture. With establishment of the Islamic Republic in Iran the fundamentalist Islamic ideology has dominated as the form of …more

Thesis description
Woman and her rights as ‘the clothes of modernization’ has been the battlefield for discourses of power since the advent of modernization in Iran. They have approached the concept in various ways, from the perspective of western culture to the perception of Iranian and Islamic culture. With establishment of the Islamic Republic in Iran, the fundamentalist Islamic ideology has dominated as the form of Islamic law in Iran. The modes of repression of surveillance power in Iran have widely been addressed by researchers. However, the Islamic revolution in Iran has had a paradoxical influence on the presence of women in the public sphere; on one hand, the Islamic Republic’s regulations, such as gender segregation in public places and the re-veiling of women, restricts the day-to-day life and social activities of secular women, while on the other hand, they facilitate the presence of traditional women in the public space and public sphere. Such changes have transformed notions of freedom and resistance. This research is an attempt to study the formation of the subject of woman by the discourses of power in Iranian society. To do this, I study the representation of a woman’s body as the locus of the embodied subject of woman by analysing the comments left under a topless portrait of a famous Iranian actress on Facebook. Foucauldian theory of power is the theoretical framework for this study and I apply critical discourse analysis for analysing the comments. Keywords: Rights of Women, Representation of Female Body in Modern Iran, Foucauldian Theory of Power and Woman's Body, Iranian Women and Body Politics in Iran
The thesis has been checked:
9/1/2014 16:23, prof. Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky, Ph.D., UČO 370423
Language used
English English
Defence date
28/1/2014
The thesis was defended successfully

Supervisor

prof. Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky, Ph.D., UČO 370423
KSoc FSS MU

Reader

Dr. Werner Binder

Literature

  • BUTLER, Judith. Bodies that matter : on the discursive limits of sex. New York: Routledge, 1993, xii, 288. ISBN 0415903661.
  • BUTLER, Judith. Gender trouble : feminism and the subversion of identity. New York: Routledge, 1999, xxxiii, 22. ISBN 0415924995.
  • FOUCAULT, Michel. Discipline and punish : the birth of the prison. Translated by Alan Sheridan. Vintage Books ed. New York: Vintage Books, 1979, 333 s. ISBN 0394727673.

Masaryk University Faculty of Social Studies
Programme
Sociology
Field of Study
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