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an international women's delegation to Iran. De Beauvoir's short text, while
not a direct response to Foucault, provides context for the debate over Foucault
and Iran in France. The third is a March 1979 article by the journalists
Claudie and Jacques Broye1le attacking Foucault's stance on Iran, published
in March 1979 in the leftist newspaper Le Matin. finally, we have translated
from the Persian the statement that Iranian feminists issued on March 10,
1 9 79, during their demonstrations against Khomeini's order for women to
re-veil themselves. It was reprinted in Matin-Daftari 1990.
N ote on the Tra nslations and the Annotation
Unless otherwise indicated, Karen de Bruin and Kevin B. Anderson carried out
the translation from the French of these writings. The rest were translated as
follows: (1) Foucault's interview with the leftist journalists Claire Briere and
Pierre Blanchet was translated from the French by Alan Sheridan. (2) Roger
Hardy and Thomas Lines translated Rodinson's "Islam Resurgent?" from the
French. (3) Marybeth Timmerman translated de Beauvoir's speech from the
French. (4) Janet Mary translated Foucault's September 1978 dialogue with
Parham in Nameh-yi Kanun-i Nevisandegan and the Iranian women's March
10, 1979, statement, both from the Persian. Throughout this appendix, unless
otherwise indicated, the notes are by Mary and Anderson.