Topic > Analysis: Women Without a Man - 1220

This time, he used a new medium, feature film, to express his feeling towards Iranian society, and stated that the film tells a story rather than conveying a concept ( 754). In this way, the film Women Without Men tells the story of four women in Islamic society, and Neshat got tired of using these four emotional and sad stories to reflect the status of women in Islamic society. Shirin Neshat has divided the film into different sections and each section tells a single story of each woman (754). They all come from different social classes and backgrounds and meet in a garden where they try to live in safety during the difficult time of the 1953 coup (754). Zarin is a young woman from the lowest social class who is not willing to be a prostitute and her struggle was shown when she got lost in a brothel (754). Munis and Faezeh represent two positions of women in the middle class; Munis cares about political events, however her brother always prevents her from participating in political events (Danto 223); In this way, Munis's struggle emphasizes a gender issue in Islamic society to which women have the right to participate in political events. In contrast, compared to Munis, Faezeh is a very traditional woman, however this character in the film reflects a serious problem in Islamic society, namely sexual violence (215). Unlike others