GENDER AND REVOLUTIONARY TRANSFORMATION - IRAN 1979 AND EAST-CENTRAL-EUROPE 1989

The sociology of revolution has produced a prodigious body of scholars hip that is nonetheless deficient in one area: attention to gender in the unfolding of revolutions and in the building of new states. Femini st scholars, however have been attentive to women's participation in r evolutions, the effects of revolutions on gender systems and women's p ositions, and how gender shapes revolutionary processes, including pat terns of mobilization, revolutionary programs, and the policies of rev olutionary states. This article discusses the literature on revolution s, presents a theoretical framework for the study of revolutions bared on gender outcomes, and examines two cases of revolutionary transform ation that conform to what I call the patriarchal model of revolution: Iran in 1979 and the 1989 revolutions in East Central Europe.