The historical process of the formation of gender policy as a source of political legitimacy in the Islamic Republic of Iran

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1 PhD student in Political Science, Department of Political Science, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

2 Professor, Department of Political Science, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

3 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

10.30465/hcs.2024.46513.2850

Abstract

The issue of gender in contemporary Iran has deep ties with politics. The process of politicizing the issue of gender in order to create political legitimacy was started by the Pahlavi regime and then pursued by the opponents of the regime with more intensity for the purpose of delegitimization of it. The delegitimization of the established regime by attacking its gender policy played a central role in building the legitimacy of the alternative system, and on this basis, the gender approach of the Islamic Republic system became one of the most important sources of its political legitimacy. In the upcoming article, we have examined this proposition with a qualitative and historical approach. The findings indicate that within the framework of gender policy, the Islamic system has linked its ideological interests in terms of official supervision in the field of culture and society with the historical approach of Iranian society in relation to ethical considerations in the field of gender and has created a legitimizing policy that has the ability to attract a wide range of society in the most years of the system's life. This policy is the product of a historical process that most of Iran's political forces, due to the combination of the two elements of traditionalism and anti-Westernism, have contributed to its formation.

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Historical Studies
Volume 15, Issue 1
September 2024

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