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Whisper Tapes: Kate Millett in Iran Paperback – Illustrated, February 5, 2019
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Kate Millett was already an icon of American feminism when she went to Iran in 1979. She arrived just weeks after the Iranian Revolution, to join Iranian women in marking International Women's Day. Intended as a day of celebration, the event turned into a week of protests. Millett, armed with film equipment and a cassette deck to record everything around her, found herself in the middle of demonstrations for women's rights and against the mandatory veil.
Listening to the revolutionary soundscape of Millett's audio tapes, Negar Mottahedeh offers a new interpretive guide to Revolutionary Iran, its slogans, habits, and women's movement―a movement that, many claim, Millett never came to understand. Published with the fortieth anniversary of the Iranian Revolution and the women's protests that followed on its heels, Whisper Tapes re-introduces Millett's historic visit to Iran and lays out the nature of her encounter with the Iranian women's movement.
- Print length88 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherStanford Briefs
- Publication dateFebruary 5, 2019
- Dimensions5 x 0.56 x 8 inches
- ISBN-101503609863
- ISBN-13978-1503609860
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"Whisper Tapes is a fascinating book that illuminates the muddled state of affairs that unfolded in Iran at the celebration of International Women's Day in 1979. In offering a deeply contingent history, Negar Mottahedeh beautifully shows Kate Millett's simultaneous closeness to and distance from the events surrounding her." -- Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi ― Princeton University
"By embedding her analysis in responsible histories of Iran and its place on the international stage, Mottahedeh masterfully deconstructs the biases of American feminism and how they have influenced Millett's understanding of the experiences of Iranian women in a postrevolutionary society. Lyrical in style and poetic in meaning, Whisper Tapes challenges readers to adopt an intersectional view of Iranian feminist movements while adding layers and dimensionality to Millett's preexisting literature."––Aisha Jitan, The Middle East Journal
"Mottahedeh's illuminating study complements [Kate] Millett's work and offers a more nuanced reading of a historic moment." -- Lucy Popescu ― Times Literary Supplement
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- Publisher : Stanford Briefs; 1st edition (February 5, 2019)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 88 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1503609863
- ISBN-13 : 978-1503609860
- Item Weight : 8.8 ounces
- Dimensions : 5 x 0.56 x 8 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,576,100 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #534 in Iran History
- #883 in Censorship & Politics
- #2,926 in Feminist Theory (Books)
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Negar Mottahedeh is a cultural critic working at the intersection of feminist theory and media studies. Her research on the use of film, photography, audio cassettes, and social media, by various social movements in Iranian history has been published by Stanford University Press, Syracuse University Press, Duke University Press, Wired, Salon.com, The Hill and The Observer. She holds a PhD in Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society from the University of Minnesota and a BA in International Relations from Mount Holyoke College. She has taught at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio, at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and in 2002 began teaching at Duke University, where she is Associate Professor in the Program in Literature, Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.
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The book gives a clear understanding of what Iranian women wanted from the beginning of the Revolution.
The transcribed chants, slogans, bring down all the biased thinking of the West towards Iran and its regime change at the time.
The book is a living testimony of the strenght and struggles of the Iranian women marching down the streets, risking their lives.
After reading it, it feels like the Iranian Revolution has not been completed yet but will be once women have all their rights restored.
Freedom is not Eastern or Western but planetary.








