Study of the Evolution of Hijab Discourse in Iran's Policy and Culture

Patterns of women's dressing in Iran's history have been shaping and evolving differently. The evolution can sometimes be studied in the form of a change and sometimes in a discontinuity. However, in most of the researches that have examined the pattern of women's dressing in Iranian history has been attempted to be used with the traditional historiography approach. Accordingly, these studies have considered the coverage as an individual, focal, and intrinsic identification issue, and it is not clear from the comprehension of comprehensiveness and the inclusion of the pattern of coverage in the context of social flows. In the new historiography used in this research, it is not possible to recognize social elements except in the context of discourses and the understanding of the field, and the production and transformation of elements into more extensive social-political processes that are themselves part of them. According to this view, in the historical era of Iran, significant events have taken place in the context of hijab discourse in society, and institutions, structures and Power relations have been formed - from the family to the basic institutions - that surround the social environment and the pattern of coverage. Accordingly, this paper tries to study the historical-discourse formulation of the cover pattern by establishing a link between the pattern of coverage and the wide discrepancies and contexts of society, culture, and power that constantly affect the production, transformation, and reproduction of the objects of social life.