Constructing a Feminine Identity in Religious Innovation Discourse

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Torbat Heydarieh, Torbat Heydarieh , Khorasan Razavi, Iran

2 Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Administrative Sciences and Economics, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran.

Abstract
Introduction: In the second decade of the establishment of the Islamic Republic, the " New religious thinking " movement emerged and created a different female identity compared to the female identity of the revolutionary discourse. From the perspective of the new thinkers, modernity has originality and on this basis a new female identity should be articulated. In this regard, the new thinkers made efforts to deconstruct the female identity of the Islamic Revolution discourse and to articulate a new female identity. New demands were formed by women and led to the creation of challenges to the female identity of the revolution discourse.

Method: Using the Laclau and Mouffe discourse analysis method, this article analyzes the words and actions of adherents of the religious neoliberal discourse in the deconstruction of the female identity of the Islamic Revolution discourse and the construction of the female identity of the neoliberal discourse.

Findings: The non-linguistic performance of the adherents of this discourse has been carried out in a wide range to articulate feminine identity.

The presentation of new demands for women at the community level, especially in relation to the three issues of hijab and the type of clothing, singing, and women's cycling in public, is one of the non-linguistic functions of the new thinking discourse in order to articulate female identity. In other words, the new thinking discourse tried to eliminate its identity defect by ideologizing and producing meaning and to make its meaning superior to the discourse of the Islamic Revolution.

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