Islamic Fundamentalism and Gender: The Portrayal of Women in Iranian Movies

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Critical Research on Religion Pub Date : 2022-09-21 DOI:10.1177/20503032221124551

Ehsan Aqababaee, M. Razaghi

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Abstract

Various political groups were involved in the 1979 Islamic Revolution of Iran, which led to the downfall of the Pahlavi regime. However, Islamic Fundamentalists gradually seized power and eliminated rival ideologies in the 1980s. In the late 1990s, Iranian Reformers won the elections and oversaw the management of the film industry for two four-year administrations until 2005. As liberals and religious democrats, the Reformers supported a modern portrayal of Iranian women in movies. The findings of this research challenge the previous studies that voiced optimism about the new individualistic portrayal of women in Iranian movies. The research methodology is based on Theresa de Lauretis's technologies of gender involving a narrative analysis of sixty-eight Iranian movies produced from 2001 to 2005. Given the political defeat of the Reformers in 2005, the main research question is to what extent has the portrayal of Iranian women gone beyond (or remained under) the ideological domination of Islamic Fundamentalism.

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伊斯兰原教旨主义与性别：伊朗电影中的女性形象

各种政治团体参与了1979年伊朗伊斯兰革命，导致巴列维政权垮台。然而，伊斯兰原教旨主义者在20世纪80年代逐渐夺取了政权，并消除了对立的意识形态。20世纪90年代末，伊朗改革者赢得了选举，并在2005年之前的两届四年任期内监督电影业的管理。作为自由主义者和宗教民主主义者，改革派支持电影中对伊朗女性的现代刻画。这项研究的发现挑战了之前对伊朗电影中女性新的个人主义形象表示乐观的研究。该研究方法基于Theresa de Lauretis的性别技术，对2001年至2005年制作的68部伊朗电影进行了叙事分析。鉴于改革派在2005年的政治失败，主要的研究问题是对伊朗妇女的描绘在多大程度上超越了（或仍然处于）伊斯兰原教旨主义的意识形态统治之下。

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期刊介绍： Critical Research on Religion is a peer-reviewed, international journal focusing on the development of a critical theoretical framework and its application to research on religion. It provides a common venue for those engaging in critical analysis in theology and religious studies, as well as for those who critically study religion in the other social sciences and humanities such as philosophy, sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, and literature. A critical approach examines religious phenomena according to both their positive and negative impacts. It draws on methods including but not restricted to the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, Marxism, post-structuralism, feminism, psychoanalysis, ideological criticism, post-colonialism, ecocriticism, and queer studies. The journal seeks to enhance an understanding of how religious institutions and religious thought may simultaneously serve as a source of domination and progressive social change. It attempts to understand the role of religion within social and political conflicts. These conflicts are often based on differences of race, class, ethnicity, region, gender, and sexual orientation – all of which are shaped by social, political, and economic inequity. The journal encourages submissions of theoretically guided articles on current issues as well as those with historical interest using a wide range of methodologies including qualitative, quantitative, and archival. It publishes articles, review essays, book reviews, thematic issues, symposia, and interviews.