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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
Introduction to Socio-Legal Study of Online Justice Seeking in Iran
CHAPTER TWO
Online Legal Empowerment: A Path to Family Justice
CHAPTER THREE
Age of Marriage Law Reform: Evidence from Social Media
CHAPTER FOUR
Perceptions of Marriage on Online Platforms
CHAPTER FIVE
Narrating #MeToo, Law, and Culture in the Iranian Anti-Sexual Violence Debate
CHAPTER SIX
Pragmatic Online Justice Seeking
CHAPTER SEVEN
Conclusion
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| Published | 21 Jan 2027 |
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| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 208 |
| ISBN | 9780755653317 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Series | Sex, Family and Culture in the Middle East |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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