Document Type : Original Research Paper

Authors

• A. Ardestani ¹
• F. Mollaja’fari ²

¹ Assistant professor of Political Science, Faculty of Humanities, Senmnan University, Semnan, Iran (Coresponding Author).

² M.A. Student in Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran.

Abstract

Today, identity politics is one of the most important analytic tools of social scientists. With this approach, they focus on political attitudes and interests of social groups who are mainly concerned with gender, race, ethnicity or religion. Attitude towards the female sexuality is one of the most important spectrums in their study. The epistemological development is rooted in the fundamental social changes and its understanding requires a careful study of some  aspects in contemporary political literature of Iran. The main question of this study is the focus on gender in the contemporary political literature that may lead to the realm of identity politics in Iran. Any focus on identity and gender discourses will involve a critical analysis and application of the Fairclough’s model on Shamlou’s poems. Thus, a social scientist may tend   to answer the questions of identity politics and gender issues. Our hypothesis is that Iranian society has gradually moved towards a new understanding of the concept of gender since the Constitutional Movement and it has helped the articulation of identity politics in Iran. The main manifestation of this politics should be sought in political literature which has always been an area for thinking due to the lack of civil society in the body polity of Iran.

Keywords

• power
• ideology
• gender
• identity politics
• discourse analysis

Main Subjects

• Women Studies
• Social Sciences