Document Type
Article
Disciplines
International Law
Abstract
The status of women's human rights in Iran today is a complex issue mired in contradiction and paradox, not unlike the Iranian society itself. The Iranian language reflects this paradox because words reportedly have double meanings that produce vagueness and intentional ambiguity resulting in misunderstandings for some and advantages for others engaged in the fine art of hiding what one really means to say. This linguistic deception is not unusual especially for Iranian women who must behave one way publicly and another way privately, even though society, in the Islamist State, has been forced to adopt a universalist moral code that proclaims against relativist ethics.
Recommended Citation
Tiefenbrun, Susan W., "The Semiotics of Women's Human Rights in Iran" (2007). Connecticut Journal of International Law. 470.
https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/cjil/470
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