A feminist analysis of Iranian women's historical 'indoor' performance and its impact on street protests of the Gender Justice movements in contempora

这个研究项目将加深对伊朗妇女的表现如何干预公共生活的理解。它将探讨表演实践如何有助于妇女对政治、社会和法律限制作出反应。通过表演的视角分析女性的历史“室内”表演和当代抗议活动，有可能丰富行动主义和表演的理论领域，以及不断发展的行动主义方法。我将把这项调查置于18世纪和19世纪伊朗妇女的家庭表演和游戏的研究中，也被称为“室内”表演，我认为这可以被认为是伊朗当代性别激进主义的历史根源。在这个项目中，我关注的三个当代女性领导的反头巾政治抗议表演作为案例研究，将从这一历史实践的角度进行分析。我的项目是关于当代伊朗女性表演的女权主义研究，该项目确定了戏剧和表演作为一门学科的差距，以及当代伊朗文化政治的差距，鉴于伊朗当前的起义，这在当前时刻尤为重要。此外，这项研究还发现了迄今为止未知的与伊朗女性表演的古老形式的联系，限制了伊朗妇女解放和女权运动的迫切领域。

This research project will develop understanding of the ways in which women's performance in Iran intervenes in public life. It will ask how performance practice contributes to women's responses to political, social and legal restriction. Analyzing women's historical 'indoor' performances and contemporary protests through the lens of performance has potential to enrich an expanding theoretical field on activism and performance, and an evolvingrepertoire of activist approaches.I will situate this investigation in a study of Iranian Women's Domestic Performances and Games in the 18th and 19th centuries, also known as 'indoor' performances, which I believe can be considered the historical roots of contemporary gender activism in Iran. The three contemporary women-led anti-hijab political protest performancesI focus on as case studies in this project will be analyzed with a view to this historical practice. My project on a feminist study of women's performance in contemporary Iran identifies a gap in theatre and performance as a discipline, as well as in contemporary Iranian cultural politics, which is particularly vital in the present moment, given the current uprising in Iran. Additionally, this research draws hithero-unknown connections to older forms of Iranian performance by women, circumscribing the imperative field of Iranian women liberation and feminist movement.