CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2024
| Author | Farzankia, Partow |
|---|---|
| Title | Sex as a Weapon of Political Ideology: Politicization of Sexuality within the Post Revolution Iranian Legal System |
| Summary | Abstract The legislative framework of the Islamic Republic of Iran includes specific components that are noteworthy when it comes to sexualizing politics or politicizing sex. I tried to identify the strategies and tools the Islamic Republic has been employing in its legal discourse to ideologize sexual conduct. By using discourse analysis methods and the insightful literature of radical feminists and poststructuralists on sex and power relations, I attempted to read legal texts in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Contrary to common assumption, denial of sex is not the primary strategy that the Islamic Republic of Iran has employed in order to deal with sexuality. The legal framework with all its specific equipment has contributed to advancing the version of sexual activity in terms of Islamic ideology. According to the status of sexuality in the primitive, yet ideal, early Islamic civilization, the ambition of transforming contemporary reality into that utopia places a huge load on sexuality. Establishing economic patterns on the wife and husband's sexual relations, advancing an Islamicized version of prostitution through the institution of temporary marriage, and reducing sex to patriarchal penetration are other positive policies of the Islamic Republic government toward sex; however, since ideology cannot embrace the chaotic variety of reality, negative policies should continue the politicization of sex within the Islamic Republic. It turns out adultery, sodomy, and other kinds of free sexual encounters posed great threats to the integrity of the Islamic Republic of Iran and even Almighty God. Criminal and violent mechanisms in the legal system abolished non-ideologized sex. All these negative policies are meant to preserve the sacred side of sex, the family, and the Islamicized sex in it. |
| Supervisor | Barat, Erzsebet |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2024/farzankia_partow.pdf |
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