Life Solved
How Fashion and the Internet are Changing the Status of Women in Iran ft. Professor Mahsa Ghaffari
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Episode notes
As Iran experiences a period of heightened unrest, the conflict between civil rights and an authoritarian state continues to play out in public and private life.
Professor Mahsa Ghaffari is a specialist in marketing, and in this episode of Life Solved she explores how dress codes and shopping choices are allowing women to subtly subvert state oppression through clothing and consumer choices in Iran.
She explains how Iran’s history has previously navigated these tensions and how social media and access to an online worldwide community are encouraging young women to question authority and share a window on women’s rights with the wider world.
You can find out more about Mahsa’s research and other work at the University of Portsmouth website: https://www.port.ac.uk/research/research-projects
USEFUL LINKS
Professor Mahsa Ghaffari
https://www.port.ac.uk/about-us/structure-and-governance/our-people/our-staff/mahsa-ghaffari
Exploiting institutional plasticity in Iranian advertising
Follow the latest news on Iranian protests
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cw97d85vjzmt
The death of Mahsa Amini in September 2022
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-62930425
Who are Iran’s Morality Police?
https://time.com/6238973/iran-morality-police-abolish-masha-amini-protests/
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