Abstract
This short paper intends to be a breezy overview, highlighting a paradigm shift subsequent to Woman, Life, Freedom, zan zendegi azadi, uprising. I discuss aspects of women’s sustained engagements with state’s structures of power at different historical periods, their century-old demand for autonomy, political agency, equality and gender justice. Women’s activism was not initiated by the drastic sociopolitical and structural upheavals of 1979. They had engaged with the state well before the establishment of the Islamic Republic, though at a smaller scall, going back to the constitutional revolution of 1906-1911. Slowly but surely, women’s unfailing struggle for gender justice has led to awakening men – and society – to the toxic effects of Gender discrimination.
