Whisper tapes: kate millett in iran - negar mottahedeh

Kate Millett was already an icon of American feminism when she went to Iran in 1979.

She arrived just weeks after the Iranian Revolution, to join Iranian women in marking International Womens Day.

Intended as a day of celebration, the event turned into a week of protests.

Millett, armed with film equipment and a cassette deck to record everything around her, found herself in the middle of demonstrations for womens rights and against the mandatory veil.

Listening to the revolutionary soundscape of Milletts audio tapes, Negar Mottahedeh offers a new interpretive guide to Revolutionary Iran, its slogans, habits, and womens movement-a movement that, many claim, Millett never came to understand.

Published with the fortieth anniversary of the Iranian Revolution and the womens protests that followed on its heels, Whisper Tapes re-introduces Milletts historic visit to Iran and lays out the nature of her encounter with the Iranian womens movement.

Kate Millett was already an icon of American feminism when she went to Iran in 1979.

She arrived just weeks after the Iranian Revolution, to join Iranian women in marking International Womens Day.

Intended as a day of celebration, the event turned into a week of protests.

Millett, armed with film equipment and a cassette deck to record everything around her, found herself in the middle of demonstrations for womens rights and against the mandatory veil.

Listening to the revolutionary soundscape of Milletts audio tapes, Negar Mottahedeh offers a new interpretive guide to Revolutionary Iran, its slogans, habits, and womens movement--a movement that, many claim, Millett never came to understand.

Published with the fortieth anniversary of the Iranian Revolution and the womens protests that followed on its heels, Whisper Tapes re-introduces Milletts historic visit to Iran and lays out the nature of her encounter with the Iranian womens movement.

Kate Millett was already an icon of American feminism when she went to Iran in 1979.

She arrived just weeks after the Iranian Revolution, to join Iranian women in marking International Womens Day.

Intended as a day of celebration, the event turned into a week of protests.

Millett, armed with film equipment and a cassette deck to record everything around her, found herself in the middle of demonstrations for womens rights and against the mandatory veil.

Listening to the revolutionary soundscape of Milletts audio tapes, Negar Mottahedeh offers a new interpret.