This thesis aims to investigate how agency of Iranian women can be explained through the political landscape during both the Constitutional Revolution (1905-1911) and the Mahsa Amini protests (2022...Show moreThis thesis aims to investigate how agency of Iranian women can be explained through the political landscape during both the Constitutional Revolution (1905-1911) and the Mahsa Amini protests (2022). This study builds on the theoretical framework of agency, defining agency as the “communal capacity to act,” and identifying a gap within agency, situated between the capacity to act and the capacity to impact. This study poses that this gap can be explained through the political landscape and hypothesizes that the political landscape during both the Constitutional Revolution and the Mahsa Amini protests has functioned as a barrier to the agency of the Iranian women’s movement. Lastly, this thesis proposes that during the Constitutional Revolution, the Iranian women’s movement capacity to impact was primarily restricted; and that during the Mahsa Amini protests, the Iranian women’s movement’s capacity to act was primarily restricted.Show less
