Abstract
This paper explores the intersections of media, authority, and women's subjectivity in post-Mahsa Iran through Lacanian psychoanalysis. We examine digital activism on X (formerly Twitter) following Mahsa Amini's death in 2022, focusing on how women resist state-imposed hijab laws by deploying hashtags as tools of symbolic disruption. Using a mixed-methods approach, we analyze 20 hijab-related hashtags from 2018 to 2023 to reveal how these campaigns express resistance and shape psychological subjectification. Our findings underscore women's resistance as both a site of subjectivity and political agency, illustrating how digital activism fosters feminist identity, symbolic defiance, and subject formation under authoritarian rule.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1-29 |
| Journal | Violence Against Women |
| Early online date | 24 Sept 2025 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2025 |
Keywords
- Subjectivity
- Authority
- Hijab
- Mahsa Amini
- digital resistance
