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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]
www.csmonitor.com/durable/1999/10/15/p1s4.htm
Bargaining with Fundamentalism: Women and the Politics of Population Control in Iran - Article by Homa Hoodfar from the Global Reproductive Health Forum.
www.hsph.harvard.edu/rt21/globalism/hoodfar.html
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.
www.geocities.com/Wellesley/3321/win2b.htm
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]
www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/khatami.htm
Post-revolutionary Iran: Islamic Feminism and the Crisis of Civil Society - By Elham Gheytanchi. [Center For Comparative Social Analysis, UCLA]
www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/groups/ccsa/gheytanchi.htm
Postcard From Mashad -- Young Afghan-American Woman Found Iran Was - Point of view by Fariba Najab. [Pacific News Service]
www.pacificnews.org/yo/stories/97/970604-iran-women.html
Religious Fundamentalism and Women's Rights in Iran - Several articles by Donna M. Hughes about women's rights in Iran.
www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/pubfund.htm
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]
www.iranian.com/History/2000/March/Women/index2.html
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]
www.iranian.com/Opinion/2000/April/Women/index.html
Tahirih: Babi and Women's Right's Martyr - How a 19th century Persian poetess affected the women's suffrage movement.
expage.com/page/tanjiasarticles
The Contending Discourses on Women in Iran - Article by Farideh Farhi describing the various obstacles that Iranian women face in their struggle for equality.
www.twnside.org.sg/title/iran-cn.htm
The Iranian Revolution Turned Against Women Who Supported It - Article by Tayana Marshall from The McGill Daily.
www.peak.sfu.ca/the-peak/95-2/issue5/iran.html
The Iranian: Women - Several feature articles about women from The Iranian online magazine.
www.iranian.com/Women/Features/index.html
The Islamic Revolution's Impact on the Legal and Social Status of Iranian Women - By Kourosh Eshghipour. [New England International and Comparative Law Annual]
www.nesl.edu/annual/vol3/iran.htm
The Veiled Threat: Iranian Theocracy's Fear of Females - By Azar Nafisi.[The New Republic Online]
www.thenewrepublic.com/archive/0299/022299/nafisi022299.html
Women and the Politics of Fundamentalism in Iran - Response to Haleh Afshar's article of the same name by Mandana Hendessi and Rouhi Shafii.
www.gn.apc.org/waf/journal6p12.htm
Women and the Politics of Fundamentalism in Iran - Article by Haleh Afshar.
www.gn.apc.org/waf/j5p15.htm
Women in Iran - Analysis from the PBS special Vis à Vis "Beyond the Veil".
www.pbs.org/visavis/women_mstr.html