خلاصه ماشینی:
As the sub-title of the book by Mohammad Hossein Hafezian on the role of women in the Iranian Revolution demonstrates, the presence of women in history, even in its most significant moments, is usually an "untold story" or the hidden aspect of history.
The author's main argument is that Iranian women participated in the Islamic revolution as a response not only to general grievances the whole Iranian society experienced during the Shah's era, but also to the limitations that the "pseudo• modernist" monarchy imposed upon women in various ways and the gap it created between their expectations and the reality of their life.
Women in social and political movements of the 20th century Iran sometimes followed their own agenda and demanded rights such as education and participation in public life.
In this new discourse, Fatima is represented as an activist woman whose participation in public life and her role in socio-political developments should be taken as a model for contemporary Muslim women.
The book Eis an attempt to account for women's participation in the Islamic Revolution tends to pose counterarguments against the tendency to under-evaluate women's independent motivations and also to solve the paradoxes and contradictions offered in other works on the same theme.
2. Among the work done on the role and/ or the position of women in the Islamic Revolution or its gendered aspects, see for example, Guity Nashat, Women in Iranian Revolution, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1983; Farideh Farhi, "Sexuality and the Politics of Revolution in Iran," in Tatreault, op.