Iranian Women's Liberation Movement Year Zero (1979)

On March 7, 1979, Khomeini announces mandatory veiling for women. From March 8 to March 13, women and liberals demonstrate in the streets against the veil. A crew of four French feminists (Sylvina Boissonnas, Michelle Muller, Sylviane Rey, and Claudine Mulard) filmed these historical events shortly before being expelled from the country. They, alongside Kate Millet, were in Iran at the invitation of a local women's committee on the occasion of International Women's Day. Their time in Iran is marked by their fixed lens of white western feminism and their inability to "get it." Millet's time in Iran and the audio recordings she made there have been written about extensively, most recently in Negar Mottahedeh's Whisper Tapes.
The only feminist documentary film that was made about the women's demonstrations in Iran was a short, thirteen-minute film produced by Des Femmes and entitled Mouvement de Libération des Femmes Iraniennes, Année Zéro (Liberation movement of Iranian women, year zero). The French Psych et Po feminists Claudine Mulard and Sylviane Rey left Iran on March 18, 1979. Sylvina Boissonnas and Michelle Muller left Iran immediately after the announcement of Kate Millett's expulsion at Amir-Entezam's press conference on March 16 with four rolls of 16mm film, each about twelve minutes in length. The edited film, which was narrated by Mulard, was first screened at La Mutualité shortly after the feminists' return to Paris. A four-minute clip was broadcast on Antenne 2 (French television) a few weeks later. While the film is the only film imprint of the Mouvement de Libération des Femmes (MLF), it has not been officially distributed by the movement. The film has found an afterlife at the Centre Audio Visuel Simone de Beauvoir and has virally circulated online since the 2009 postelection uprising in Iran. Two rolls of 35mm still photographs (a contact sheet of seventy) of the women's demonstrations of March 1979 remain in the Des Femmes archives.
High school girls were at the helm of the Iranian women's demonstrations of March 1979. They were the first to debate the question of mandatory veiling with their school teachers, to cancel classes, and to take their outrage to the streets and squares of Tehran. Mojgan K. is one of the school girls in the short documentary on the women's demonstrations made by Des Femmes. In her interview with the French feminist Claudine Mulard in the film, Mojgan says that she is participating in the demonstrations because she wants to "live freely, to speak freely, and to write freely" and that her mother feels similarly.
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True heart and courage

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The irony

[@XDKnoori]

I bet you wouldn't bat an eyelid to the Shah banning hijab tho

[@ianwazowski5607]

Banning the hijab is a good thing. It isn't a suprise that a misogynist would support forcing the hijab on women

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@@ianwazowski5607 and what about the millions of women around the world who willingly wear the hijab? It would make more sense to enforce hijab rather than to enforce banning it in the Muslim world but just look at the hypocrisy you're spewing. You're either a beta cuck male or female pretending to be male (most likely the latter)

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@@XDKnoori Plenty of men are also against the hijab it's a symbol of oppression. Those women who want to wear it can do it but I prefer banning it completely that making it mandatory