Kate Millett was already an icon of American feminism when she went to Iran in 1979. She arrived just weeks after the Iranian Revolution, to join Iranian women in marking International Women's Day. Intended as a day of celebration, the event turned into a week of protests. Millett, armed with film equipment and a cassette deck to record everything around her, found herself in the middle of demonstrations for women's rights and against the mandatory veil.
Listening to the revolutionary soundscape of Millett's audio tapes, Negar Mottahedeh offers a new interpretive guide to Revolutionary Iran, its slogans, habits, and women's movement―a movement that, many claim, Millett never came to understand. Published with the fortieth anniversary of the Iranian Revolution and the women's protests that followed on its heels, Whisper Tapes re-introduces Millett's historic visit to Iran and lays out the nature of her encounter with the Iranian women's movement.
Author(s): Negar Mottahedeh
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 224
City: Stanford
Cover
Contents
A Revolutionary Timeline
Overture
I: A Azadi Freedom
II: B Beauvoir
III: P Pahlavi
IV: T Tehran
V: S Servat Wealth
VI: J Jaryan Flow
VII: CH Chaghaleh badoom Unripe Almonds
VIII: H Hamleh Attack
IX: KH Khomeini
X: D Durud Salute
XI: Z Zat Instinct
XII: R Rooznameh Newspaper
XIII: Z Zan Woman
XIV: ZH Zhornalist Journalist
XV: S Surud Anthem
XVI: SH Schoenman
XVII: S do-Sefr Si-Sad-o-Si-yo Yek 00331
XVIII: Z Zabt Recording
XIX: T Tulu' Dawn
XX: Z Zaher Appearance
XXI: 'AYN Eid Festival
XXII: GH Ghazal Ode
XXIII: F Fallaci
XXIV: Q Qom
XXV: K Kooh Mountain
XXVI: G Guruh-ha Women's Groups
XXVII: L Lisans Bachelor's Degree
XXVIII: M Mard Man
XXIX: N Nafas Breath
XXX: V Vafadari
XXXI: H Hasht 8
XXXII: Y Yavash Slowly
Coda
Acknowledgments
Notes
Photo section
