Explaining the question of hijab as a mandate or a choice? The anti-hijab protests in Iran

Over the years, the female body and the contentions around gender have been idealised, politicised, theologized, and used as a mechanism for social control. The capacity to govern one’s body is equivalent to being able to control one’s life. Over the years, political regimes have created contested meaning around women’s bodies and used it as […]

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