Iran: hijab ‘treatment clinics’ echo historical use of mental illness to control women

Women’s choice to not wear a headscarf is presented to the public as a symptom of mental illness, such as an “antisocial personality disorder”, “histrionic disorder” or “bipolar disorder”.    By Daanika Kamal, Royal Holloway University of London   The opening of a “hijab removal treatment clinic” to “offer scientific and psychological treatment” for Iranian […]