The authors of these five books describe the complexity and hardship of women’s lives in Iran
by both women and men. Hijab-burning protesters demanded not just equality for women but the removal of Iran’s Islamist regime. In trying to suppress the demonstrations, the regime has killed more than 400 people. Although Iran’s theocratic government discriminates against women, in some ways they are better off than those in other conservative Muslim countries. The share of women in higher education has risen 20-fold since the regime took power in 1979.
Education became an ideological battleground after the Islamic revolution. Government-appointed administrators banned several books from Tehran University. Agents of the regime infiltrated student groups. Azar Nafisi, a professor of English at the time, was sacked. Her response was to set up her own informal English department, meeting with seven of her best female students weekly in her living room to study the novels of Vladimir Nabokov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jane Austen and Henry James.
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