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Sure, but even if dangerous it is a space that is concretely theirs in the sense that in the absence of any women in public it can’t be a red light district. Co
by SiempreViernes 4y ago
Sure, but even if dangerous it is a space that is concretely theirs in the sense that in the absence of any women in public it can’t be a red light district. Contrast with a museum, which could ban all women from entry and still be a museum.
But while I get how this space would grant the women inside some freedom they could not otherwise have, I wonder how much its existence mattered for the women outside its walls.
- eternalban 4y agoSorry, my b.s. meter rang out here. Here, on the page 9 of this dissertation, we have a newspaper from before the revolution that describes the area as "cages" for women, most of whom are "caught in mental and/or familial issues and crisis", "some of whom never see daylight". The older ones, who apparently could leave, ended up "becoming child caretakers for younger prostitutes". In the middle of this "women's space", there was an open air "garbage dump", and "mattresses were made from the cotton of discarded sanitary napkins". So yeah, a "prison" "concretely" belongs to the inmates. https://open-education-repository.ucl.ac.uk//799/1/Sadaf_Tabatabaei_Dissertation.pdf https://open-education-repository.ucl.ac.uk//799/1/Sadaf_Tab...