The student who stripped her clothes to protest the country’s oppressive dress code fits into an evolving movement of body-based feminist activism.
Pamela Karimi
Pamela Karimi is Associate Professor of history of art and architecture at Cornell University. She is the author of Women, Art, Freedom: Artists and Street Politics in Iran (Leuven University Press, 2024), Alternative Iran: Contemporary Art and Critical Spatial Practice (Stanford University Press, 2022) and and Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran (Routledge, 2013).
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