Women, Religion, and Political Agency in Iran

Haeri, Shahla

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“…Hence, whoever challenges the basis of the government legal system and the judiciary (structural violence) and the implementation of its verdicts could be accused of acting against God and hence of being "evil" because that person is questioning the legitimacy of Sharia law. The presumed sacredness of the laws and policies creates an atmosphere of fear-the fear of being accused of blasphemy or of committing a sin for objecting to the presumed sacred laws-either of which can result in harsh punishment (Aghtaie 2016(Aghtaie , 2017Haeri 2009). Thus, when human rights activists, lawyers and/or international communities try to challenge the system in Iran by stating that child execution is a violation of human rights and of the UNCRC, such individuals or groups may be accused of blasphemy or treated as a threat to national security (OHCHR 2016).…”

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Child Execution in Iran: Furthering Our Understanding of Child Execution as a Form of Structural Violence

Aghtaie

Staines

2022

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This article explores how the concepts of strucutral violence and cultural violence can explain the institutionalization and normalization of violence in children’s lives in Iran, including the use of the death penalty, thereby providing a mechanism through which such violence can be challenged. The paper reflects on how an alternative to execution, the payment of blood money, diyah, mitigates but does not eradicate harms caused to child offenders convicted of Qesas offenses and how diyah is used by Iranian authorities to avoid fulfilling their legal obligations to children who offend. The article argues that eradicating child execution and the payment of blood money is dependent on challenging the structural violence that is embedded within Iran’s legal structures and it reflects on recent improvements in the legal system.

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Child Execution in Iran: Furthering Our Understanding of Child Execution as a Form of Structural Violence

Aghtaie

Staines

2022

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“…Collectively, they level challenges to the traditional male privileges and patriarchal authority that, according to Ashraf Brujerdi, who served in a highranking position under President Khatami's government, "can no longer be ignored." 44 Nonetheless, despite their noticeable gains in education and employment, or perhaps because of them, the state has continued to enforce legally regressive family laws.…”

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Gender disparities in UK research publishing: Differences between fields, methods and topics

Thelwall

Abdoli

Lebiedziewicz

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EPI

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Gender disparities persist in UK research, with female minorities in most science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects but female majorities in others. The nature of the gender disparity differences between subjects needs to be understood if effective remedial actions are to be targeted at STEM subjects suffering from a lack of women, in contrast to other subjects without shortages. Evidence from the USA suggests that women engage more in people-related subjects, qualitative methods, veterinary science and cell biology and men engage more in thing-related subjects, power/control fields, patient-related research, abstraction and quantitative methods, except surveys. This article investigates gender disparity differences in UK first authorship for journal articles in nearly all of science split into 26 broad and 308 narrow Scopus fields. The results largely replicate the USA but suggest that more life science topics may be female-associated in the UK and patient-related research might not be male-associated. UK STEM gender parity initiatives might therefore emphasise people-oriented, and perhaps socially positive, aspects of currently masculine STEM topics and approaches (e.g., abstraction, mathematical quantitative methods), and promote female-friendly topics, methods and goals within male-dominated fields in addition to tacking implicit and explicit sexism and providing a supportive working environment.

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“…It is important to note that adopting a top down approach is not an easy task in Iran. With Kar (2000), Haeri (2009) believes that the Islamic State of Iran has tried to justify the legitimization of discriminatory laws which perpetuate gender inequality by basing its arguments on three presumably irreversible beliefs: the nature/nurture theory that argues women and men are biologically different and that this would entail different rights and obligations; religion, which is the sacred route for human society; and finally Islamic Sharia law. Such reasoning renders the mentioned laws sacred and therefore, if one were to object to them due to their gender discriminatory nature, she/he might be accused of blasphemy.…”

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Rape within heterosexual intimate relationships in Iran: legal frameworks, cultural and structural violence

Aghtaie

2017

Families, Relationships and Societies

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Rape and sexual assault are widespread but significantly underreported worldwide. This is more so in countries where the legal system and the cultural context provide impunity for the perpetrators of sexual violence, and which sometimes blame victims for provoking the assault. Secondary victimisation of rape and sexual assault victims through the responses of individuals and institutions are prevalent globally. However, this silence might be enforced further by the patriarchal legal system and long established traditional cultures. This paper aims to theorise rape within the Iranian context employing the concepts of cultural and structural violence from a feminist perspective. Such conceptualisation will facilitate a demonstration of the interplay between victims, perpetrators, the culture, and the State.

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Women, Religion, and Political Agency in Iran

Cited by 8 publications

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Child Execution in Iran: Furthering Our Understanding of Child Execution as a Form of Structural Violence

Child Execution in Iran: Furthering Our Understanding of Child Execution as a Form of Structural Violence

Gender disparities in UK research publishing: Differences between fields, methods and topics

Rape within heterosexual intimate relationships in Iran: legal frameworks, cultural and structural violence

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