women political participation in Islamic Revolution : Social analyzing posters

The present article aims to identify the political and social dimensions of women's activism in contemporary social change in Iran and seeks to examine their political participation during the victory of the Islamic Revolution and the establishment of the Islamic Republic based on existing documents. Revolutionary posters are a type of political poster that contain features and visual elements related to the nature of the changing of this period. Regarding the few works available on the subject of women's participation in the Islamic Revolution, researchers have analyzed the semiotics of the eight accessible posters. Methodologically as a qualitative research it used social semiotics with a focus on the social meaning and based on Van Leeuwen's three-dimensional representations. Women's political participation is represented in the form of participation in demonstrations and elections in posters. Although compared to men in terms of quantity, we face a lack of presence, but women in the central positions of the poster, drawn alongside men. The posters contain signs of Islamic ideology, including the hijab, as well as the role of motherhood and intimacy with martyrs, and evoke the role of mother-woman. Therefore, it can be claimed that the posters of the revolution contain indications of new gender relations at this time. In other words, the combination of semantic levels in general shows how the Muslim woman fighter in the revolutionary space and as a social active actor under the supportive stands of the revolutionary leader, regardless of gender stereotypes, has the opportunity to participate politically.