Women taking a stand

The History Hour

BBC

History, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

A collection of Witness History episodes, this week focusing on global events where women have taken a stand for equality from Sudan to Iran and Australia. In Iran in 1979, Islamic rules about how women dressed were just one of the issues women objected to during the Iranian revolution.

The BBC's Rana Rahimpour discusses the protests currently taking place in Iran triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini with echoes of what happened in 1979.

We also head to Sudan in 1991 when a law was introduced to control how women acted and dressed in public resulting in arrests, beatings and deaths.

And we hear from a survivor of the 2002 Moscow siege when heavily armed Chechen rebels took an entire theatre full of people hostage, with some disturbing scenes.

(Photo: Women during the Iranian revolution in 1979. Credit: Alain Dejean/Sygma via Getty Images)

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the History Hour podcast from the BBC World Service with me Max Pearson,
0:04.7	a collection of this week's witness history episodes.
0:07.6	And this week, women and protest.
0:10.3	This woman was jailed in 1990s Sudan for wearing trousers.
0:13.8	Honestly it was conducive to utter emotional and psychological confusion
0:18.5	and it was very demoralising.
0:20.5	It meant utter oppression of the Sudanese citizen.
0:23.0	Iran is facing unrest at the moment over women and the hijab,
0:27.0	but the same was true at the start of the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
0:31.0	At that day, I said I hate revolution and for years and for all my life we were
0:36.8	waiting for a revolution and that day I said revolution is is just
0:41.0	despicable and we have the former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who had enough of
0:46.4	misogyny in 2012.
0:48.0	I will not be lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man.
0:53.2	I will not.
0:54.2	And the government will not be lectured about sexism and misogyny.
0:59.1	Not now, not ever.
1:01.2	That's all coming up later in the podcast. Right now, Iran is being convulsed by a wave of protests
1:06.7	sparked by the death in custody of Marsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish woman, who'd been arrested
1:12.3	for the alleged improper wearing of the hijab or headscarf.
1:15.9	Dozens of people are reported to have been killed as the demonstrators have clashed with security
1:20.3	forces in the Islamic Republic. We'll be hearing from Iran in the immediate post-Islamic revolution years in the 1980s.
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