How Fashion and the Internet are Changing the Status of Women in Iran ft. Dr. Mahsa Ghaffari Life Solved

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.
 
Dr. 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
 
Dr. Mahsa Ghaffari
https://www.port.ac.uk/about-us/structure-and-governance/our-people/our-staff/mahsa-ghaffari
 
Exploiting institutional plasticity in Iranian advertising
https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/en/publications/cracking-the-box-or-stretching-its-walls-exploiting-institutional
 
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://theconversation.com/who-are-irans-morality-police-a-scholar-of-the-middle-east-explains-their-history-196023
 
https://time.com/6238973/iran-morality-police-abolish-masha-amini-protests/

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