Politicizing Motherhood: A study of unwed mothers in two Iranian films

Author(s)	Mr. Debanjan Seth
Country	India
Abstract	Throughout history women in Iran have witnessed severe repression and political regulation of their bodies that has only served to reflect the vagaries of patriarchal administration. Parallel to that has been the history of women’s resistance and since 2010 there has been intensive attempts to lay bare women’s bodies as sites of protest- defined by the term embodied resistance. If Jafar Panahi’s renowned film The Circle had raised burning questions on the condition of women in Iran, twenty-two years later Ali Asgari’s critically acclaimed film Until Tomorrow brings in new questions and a bolder form of resistance to the biopolitical control of the repressive regime.
Keywords	Iran, women, embodied resistance, protest, biopolitical control, repressive regime
Field	Arts > Movies / Music / TV
Published In	Volume 8, Issue 3, May-June 2026
Published On	2026-06-23

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