understanding the evolutions of iranian women’s identity

The living and social nature of women has always been questionedby traditional and modern political systems, forces and socialcurrents, from both religious and secular sides. to explain thissubject methodically, the problem of research can be made morecomprehensible by formulating the concept of living shi’ism,which is considered as a manifestation of collectiveunconsciousness and the context of political and social action. themain question of the article is what the role, weight and influence ofliving shi’ism ideas are in the processes of shaping women'spolitical and social behaviors in contemporary iranian history?living shi’ism in iran is not entirely shiite, but it borrowedconcepts and received influences as a result of interaction andintellectual contact with intellectual currents and ideologies.findings showed the process of political and social identification ofiranian women is influenced by a set of thinking styles and patternsbased on shiite teachings or alienation and borrowing from newintellectual currents making any socio-political status conditionalon their acceptance and reform. patterns such as modern iranianwoman, shiite autocratic woman, left feminist woman, armedmujahid woman, housewife with hijab, religious modern womanand the emergence of dual hijab /veil and woman with hijab /chastewoman are examples of empathy or women's encounter withliving shi’ism in different periods of iranian contemporary history.hence social structures such as unveiling, forced hijab, thetransformation of hijab from a religious to political matter, and theformation of foregoing currents are not sudden, but a gradualprocess of women's biological interaction with iranian society.