The Woman Question

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Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.7 • 15K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

What's happening in Iran right now is unprecedented. But the Iranian people's struggle for gender equality began generations before the death of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini, also known by her Kurdish name, Jina Amini. The successes of this struggle, as well as its setbacks and horrors, are well-documented, but often misunderstood. Scholar Arzoo Osanloo argues that women have been at the center of Iran's century-long fight for freedom and self-determination. It's a historical thread that goes all the way back to Iran's Constitutional Revolution in the early 20th century: A complicated story of reform, revolution, and a fundamental questioning of whether Iranian people — and people around the Islamic world — will accept a government of clerics as the sole arbiters of Islam and the state.

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0:00.0	The
0:17.2	Massal got killed for a bit of her for a little bit of her hair was showing
0:23.2	Now Iranian women are angry and telling the rest of the world that we're not
0:31.2	fighting against compulsory a job we want an end for gender apartheid regime
1:01.2	Alas for the day is fading the evening shadows are stretching
1:26.8	like a cage full of birds is filled with the moans of captivity
1:31.9	This is a poem by the Iranian poet Furuch Faroch said recited in her 1963 film
1:38.8	The House is Black or Hane Ciaast
1:45.0	and none among us knows how long it will last
1:57.2	The harvest season passed the summer season came to an end and we did not find
2:03.6	deliverance Faroch said was an artist ahead of her time she wrote modern
2:09.6	subversive poems that explored topics like sex depression and women's liberation
2:15.6	Despite criticism from conservatives in society she still published her work
2:20.6	work that remains so relevant that the Islamic Republic first banded
2:25.2	then heavily censored it after the revolution
2:28.0	Maunandifal, the battle against so Khmeen Ali, Banir
2:33.8	She died in 1967 at the age of 32 but remains a symbolic and prophetic figure
2:41.2	whose work is indicative of the long history of the women's liberation movement in Iran
2:47.3	Like doves we cry for justice and there is none
3:00.6	We wait for light and darkness reigns
3:11.5	Demonstrations now erupting across the globe
3:14.8	Following the death of 22 year old Masa Amini
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