RESISTANCE WITHOUT INSTITUTION: READING THE PROCESS OF IRANIAN WOMEN’S RESISTANCE AGAINST THE OBLIGATORY HIJAB THROUGH FOUCAULDIAN POWER AND BUTLER’S SUBVERSIVE REPETITION

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2025-12-9

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Rastgarkarimi, Saba

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This study aimed to examine the process of Iranian women’s resistance against the obligatory hijab after the 1979 Revolution. Iranian women's resistance against the obligatory hijab Law had ups and downs. It led to the uprising of “Women, Life, Freedom”, which was followed by critical social transformations. The resistance, as the subject of scrutiny in this study, is a resistance without institution; that is, individual resistances interwoven in women’s daily lives. To examine the nature of the gradual resistance of Iranian women, the study focuses on two main questions. Firstly, it studies the nature of power that Iranian women face from the Foucauldian perspective. Following him, power, in this study, is a network of force relations that operates with disciplining subjects and controlling them in a web of norms/ the Law. Then, answering how Iranian women resisted the obligatory hijab, the study examines their resistance through Judith Butler’s subversive repetition and parody. This is a kind of resistance fed within the system, but it occurs by citing norms inappropriately. Iranian women have undergone a process of self-transformation that led to the deconstruction of the norms within the network of force relations by reiterating the norms inappropriately. The rupture in the web of norms caused power to change its strategies, whether by acting more violently or moderately. Studying the process of the hijab transformation can partly help study the reasons behind the “Women, Life, Freedom” movement and its consequences.

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power, force relations, resistance, subversive repetition, hijab

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/117383

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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S. Rastgarkarimi, “RESISTANCE WITHOUT INSTITUTION: READING THE PROCESS OF IRANIAN WOMEN’S RESISTANCE AGAINST THE OBLIGATORY HIJAB THROUGH FOUCAULDIAN POWER AND BUTLER’S SUBVERSIVE REPETITION,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2025.