عنوان

Labor, Women, and War in the 1979 Iranian Revolution

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انگلیسی

Labor, Women, and War in the 1979 Iranian Revolution

[Thesis]

Sahar Razavi

Parson, Sean M.

Northern Arizona University

2017

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Committee members: Fernandez, Luis A.; Mahmoudi, Kooros M.; Thompson, Carol B.

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-56826-4

Ph.D.

Politics and International Affairs

Northern Arizona University

2017

In ousting the last Shah of Iran from the country in 1979, Iranians achieved what many popular movements have aspired to accomplish: they removed from power a repressive regime that had for decades ruled with only superficial overtures toward democratic governance and tolerated no meaningful challenges to the monarchy. The revolution represented a crucial moment in Iranian politics, one in which a more pluralistic democratic politics could be forged. Instead, a narrow faction of clerics and the non-clerics who allied with them rose to power after a years-long process of struggle between opposing political forces. The question of why-in a country with a plurality of political groups and a history of vibrant social and political movements-the clerical segment of society prevailed animates this project. I argue that three distinct but interconnected nodes of conflict converged in the period between World War II and the end of the Iran-Iraq War, and within these realms of conflict the New Clergy outmaneuvered their opposition in order to consolidate power and reshape the political sphere to their benefit. The three nodes are labor and poverty, women and gender, and war and nationalism.

Middle Eastern Studies; International Relations; Political science

Social sciences;Clergy;Iran;Labor;Revolution;War;Women

Ali, Adam

Parson, Sean M.

Politics and International Affairs

Northern Arizona University

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