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Online Justice Seeking and Law Reform in Iran

Post to Change

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Online Justice Seeking and Law Reform in Iran

Post to Change

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Online Justice Seeking and Law Reform in Iran: Post to Change offers a socio-legal study of how Iranian women use social media and online platforms to interpret law, express legal needs, challenge gender inequality, and demand justice. Focusing on women's personal status laws, the book examines how public perceptions of marriage, family law, compulsory hijab, sexual harassment, and sexual violence are shaped and contested in Iran's digital public sphere.

Drawing on netnographic research, case studies, online legal enquiries, court judgments, and social media campaigns, Sahar Maranlou explores how women use online spaces to access legal information, build solidarity, narrate injustice, and pressure the justice system towards greater gender sensitivity. The book pays particular attention to campaigns around child marriage, forms of marriage, #MeToo, and hijab law, showing how online justice seeking connects everyday legal experiences with wider demands for law reform.

Rather than treating social media only as a tool of activism or resistance, this book examines it as a site of public legal culture, legal empowerment, and socio-legal transformation. It argues that, despite barriers to formal reform, online platforms have opened new possibilities for women's access to justice in Iran's plural legal system.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Table of Statutes
Abbreviations
Note on Transliteration
1. Socio-Legal Study of Gender Equality Through Social Media
2. Conceptualising and Designing Research Methodology
3. Perceptions of Marriage Law: Evidence from social media in Iran
4. Twitter: Hijab Law Campaigns
5. Narrating #MeToo, Law, and Culture in the Iranian Anti-Sexual Violence Debate
6. Hashtag Activism, Access to Justice and Law Reform
7. Conclusion
Glossary of Key Terms
Bibliography
Index

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published Jan 21 2027
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Pages 240
ISBN 9780755653324
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Series Sex, Family and Culture in the Middle East
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Sahar Maranlou

Sahar Maranlou is a socio-legal scholar at Royal H…

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