One ought to expect the unexpected in post-revolutionary Iran. Still, before last year, few experts could have imagined that Iran would be the cradle of a women-led movement demanding gender equality and inspiring the world. Few, inside or outside the country, could have envisaged that the arrest and death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-yearold Iranian Kurdish woman, by Iran’s so-called morality police would trigger a massive protest movement, considered by many to be the early signs of a revolution.
Although the morality police—equipped with violence, clubs, and batons to harass, terrorize, discipline, and even kill women—still performs its hypermasculine authority, women are burning their headscarves, displaying them
