Pamela Karimi is an associate professor of history of art and architecture at Cornell University. Her expertise lies primarily in the art, architecture and visual culture of the modern and contemporary Middle East. She is the author of Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran: Interior Revolutions of the Modern Era (2013) and Alternative Iran: Contemporary Art and Critical Spatial Practice (2022).

Women, Art, Freedom probes every term of its title to document and theorize the aesthetics of rebellion in Iran. Karimi’s terrific book explores the nuances of language, color, calligraphy, graffiti, performance, artistic precedents, and gender identity as she takes up the current movement, finding art to be crucial to parafeminist imaginaries around the globe. - Caroline Jones, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• 9 IntroductionAct One45 Parading the Body on SidewalksAct Two69 Hiding in Plain SightAct Three93 Staging Citywide Protest PropsAct Four113 Reclaiming Old Themes for New Protest ArtsAct Five133 Reenacting Street BattlesAct Six155 Documenting Urban UnrestAct Seven175 Camouflaging Defiant WordsAct Eight199 Clashing with Faith in Broad DaylightAct Nine219 Opposing Art with Art in CityscapesAct Ten237 Forecasting the Future263 Coda271 Notes285 Select Bibliography289 IndexERRATUM : An error is noted in attributing a typographic work to Reza Abedini. While he also promoted the same style, the example cited on pages 179-180 was created by Bijan Seifouri.

Pamela Karimi is an associate professor of history of art and architecture at Cornell University. Her expertise lies primarily in the art, architecture and visual culture of the modern and contemporary Middle East. She is the author of Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran: Interior Revolutions of the Modern Era (2013) and Alternative Iran: Contemporary Art and Critical Spatial Practice (2022).

Women, Art, Freedom probes every term of its title to document and theorize the aesthetics of rebellion in Iran. Karimi’s terrific book explores the nuances of language, color, calligraphy, graffiti, performance, artistic precedents, and gender identity as she takes up the current movement, finding art to be crucial to parafeminist imaginaries around the globe. - Caroline Jones, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• 9 IntroductionAct One45 Parading the Body on SidewalksAct Two69 Hiding in Plain SightAct Three93 Staging Citywide Protest PropsAct Four113 Reclaiming Old Themes for New Protest ArtsAct Five133 Reenacting Street BattlesAct Six155 Documenting Urban UnrestAct Seven175 Camouflaging Defiant WordsAct Eight199 Clashing with Faith in Broad DaylightAct Nine219 Opposing Art with Art in CityscapesAct Ten237 Forecasting the Future263 Coda271 Notes285 Select Bibliography289 IndexERRATUM : An error is noted in attributing a typographic work to Reza Abedini. While he also promoted the same style, the example cited on pages 179-180 was created by Bijan Seifouri.