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Artists' vital role in shaping nonviolent resistance in Iran Women, Art, Freedom offers an insightful look at the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom uprising in Iran, sparked by the tragic murder of Jina Mahsa Amini at the hands of the ""morality police"" for violating hijab rules. Beyond its feminist undertones and the remarkable courage of the young protesters, what sets this uprising apart from previous ones is the abundant and diverse art it has inspired. This book, rather than merely analyzing the artworks that garnered attention on social media platforms, brings to light lesser-known grassroots artistic movements that played a crucial role within their immediate local communities. Engaging with primarily Iran-based artists, it uncovers their role in shaping guerrilla interventions and street occupations and in articulating distinct forms of peaceful civil disobedience. By drawing on a broad spectrum of historical and theoretical sources, this book further reveals the origins and inspirations of Iran’s protest art. Focusing mainly on the interconnections between the public sphere, women’s bodies, and feminist viewpoints, Women, Art, Freedom underscores the vital role of artists in championing global justice and equality. This book will be made open access within three years of publication thanks to Path to Open, a program developed in partnership between JSTOR, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), University of Michigan Press, and The University of North Carolina Press to bring about equitable access and impact for the entire scholarly community, including authors, researchers, libraries, and university presses around the world. Learn more at https://about.jstor.org/path-to-open/

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Woman, Art, Freedom probes every term of its title to document and theorize the aesthetics of rebellion in Iran. Karimi’s terrific book explores the nuances of language, color, calligraphy, graffiti, performance, artistic precedents, and gender identity as she takes up the current movement, finding art to be crucial to parafeminist imaginaries around the globe. - Caroline Jones, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Women, Art, Freedom probes every term of its title to document and theorize the aesthetics of rebellion in Iran. Karimi’s terrific book explores the nuances of language, color, calligraphy, graffiti, performance, artistic precedents, and gender identity as she takes up the current movement, finding art to be crucial to parafeminist imaginaries around the globe. - Caroline Jones, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Women, Art, Freedom offers a most compelling argument on how performative art and activism join hands in promoting a political posture of resistance. It spotlights through a deft analysis of a mass of data and evidence that is extraordinarily difficult to locate and gather, the unfolding of the uprisings that followed the murder of Jina Mahsa Amini on 16 September 2022. Taking its cue from Woman, Life, Freedom, the title by which a woman led revolution took place in Iran—and which should not be seen as either completed or concluded—Karimi makes a compelling argument for equating Life and Art and for the ways activism spilled through performative street art, documented and disseminated through social media, has helped create a lifeline for the young and courageous women, and men, in Iran to make life liveable in the face of beatings, imprisonment, and killings. Here is a book about art as a tool to inflict political and social change, to expose injustice, and to find reason to dream. - Sussan Babaie, The Courtauld Institute of Art 'Women, Art, Freedom' offers a most compelling argument on how performative art and activism join hands in promoting a political posture of resistance. It spotlights through a deft analysis of a mass of data and evidence that is extraordinarily difficult to locate and gather, the unfolding of the uprisings that followed the murder of Jina Mahsa Amini on 16 September 2022. Taking its cue from Woman, Life, Freedom, the title by which a woman led revolution took place in Iran—and which should not be seen as either completed or concluded—Karimi makes a compelling argument for equating Life and Art and for the ways activism spilled through performative street art, documented and disseminated through social media, has helped create a lifeline for the young and courageous women, and men, in Iran to make life liveable in the face of beatings, imprisonment, and killings. Here is a book about art as a tool to inflict political and social change, to expose injustice, and to find reason to dream. - Sussan Babaie, The Courtauld Institute of Art

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Pamela Karimi is an associate professor of history of art and architecture at Cornell University. Her expertise lies primarily in the art, architecture and visual culture of the modern and contemporary Middle East. She is the author of Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran: Interior Revolutions of the Modern Era (2013) and Alternative Iran: Contemporary Art and Critical Spatial Practice (2022).

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