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

这一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。它将询问表演实践如何有助于妇女对政治、社会和法律限制的反应。通过表演的视角分析女性历史上的室内表演和当代抗议活动，有可能丰富关于激进主义和表演的不断扩大的理论领域，以及激进主义方法的演变曲目。我将把这项调查放在一项关于18世纪和19世纪伊朗妇女国内表演和运动会的研究中，也就是所谓的室内表演，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。我将重点关注当代女性领导的三次反头巾政治抗议表演，因为本项目中的案例研究将从这一历史实践出发进行分析。我的关于当代伊朗女性表演的女权主义研究项目发现，作为一门学科，在戏剧和表演方面以及在当代伊朗文化政治方面存在差距，鉴于伊朗目前的起义，这一点在当前尤为重要。此外，这项研究还引出了迄今不为人知的与伊朗妇女表演的旧形式的联系，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.