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"Women, Life, Freedom": Media And Uprisings In Iran, Alexander J. Ham-Kucharski
"Women, Life, Freedom": Media And Uprisings In Iran, Alexander J. Ham-Kucharski
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This research analyzes the use of Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novels: Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (2003) and Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (2003) and her film Persepolis (2007) in regard to how media can teach history and political unrest and protestation, and how much of what is occurring in present day Iran of protests in regard to the death of Masha Amini and how the use of the hajib, while often a western feminist construct used to establish “orientalism “ of Muslim women, also is a deeply rooted metaphor of the restrictions of women in Iran and …