Women's Enfranchisement in the Shah

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The Shah is keen on being seen as a progressive and lightened modern constitutional monarch. He also wants to make sure he gets the credit for the reform. Women's enfranchisement, in some ways, has the same structure as other reforms of the white revolution. The figure that is most associated with state feminism comes out of the whiterevolution period.

Featuring Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and Golnar Nikpour on the history of modern Iran. This is the third episode in our four-part series. We pick up in the wake of the US-British 1953 coup against Mossadegh, assess the Shah's repression and attempts to manufacture consent through passive revolution, and then close by laying out the 1979 Islamic Revolution in all of its wild complexity. If you love The Dig, support the podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig Check out our newsletter and archives at thedigradio.com