This paper illustrates how women in Iran use blogs to write about their relationships and feelings as a way of providing momentarily empowerment in a society that places restrictions on their freedom. We examine a relatively under-explored form of blogging, common to Iran, which we call ‘love blogging’, and we carry out a qualitative analysis of a small sample of four blog postings from different Iranian women which are used to illustrative different techniques that women use in order to challenge hegemonic gendered discourses in their society. We show how Iranian women use blogs as a way of revealing their innermost thoughts, creating alternative identities and articulating what is left ‘unsaid’ to their partners. The postings chosen highlight the disempowered status of women in Iranian society, from staying at home to carry out servicework to cases of marital rape and other forms of violence which Iranian women are expected to silently endure. The blog postings also indicate how women use techniques to avoid censorship, including use of metaphor, ambiguity, altered idioms and images.

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抵制沉默：伊朗女性博客中的赋权时刻

本文阐述了伊朗女性如何使用博客来记录她们的关系和感受，以此作为在限制她们自由的社会中提供暂时赋权的一种方式。我们研究了一种相对未充分探索的博客形式，在伊朗很常见，我们称之为“爱情博客”，我们对来自不同伊朗女性的四个博客帖子的小样本进行了定性分析，这些帖子用于说明不同的技术，女性使用它是为了挑战她们社会中霸权的性别话语。我们展示了伊朗女性如何使用博客来揭示她们内心深处的想法，创造另类身份并阐明对伴侣“未说”的内容。所选择的帖子突出了伊朗社会中女性被剥夺权利的地位，从呆在家里从事服务工作到伊朗妇女应该默默忍受的婚内强奸和其他形式的暴力案件。博客文章还表明女性如何使用技巧来避免审查，包括使用隐喻、歧义、改变的习语和图像。