ABSTRACT
The auhtor recounts the story of the work for women's rights in Iran in the 1970s, partly as an historical reflection because she believes that one cannot go forward without understanding the past, but also as a case study of the Women's Organization of Iran (WOI) and its role before, during, and after the First UN world conference on women in Mexico city in 1975. The history of the Iranian women's movement has been distorted by post-1979 revolutionary propaganda and sometimes left invisible because of the proximity between the major events in which the WOI played a decisive role and the upheaval that resulted in the Iranian revolution. The Western feminist's visit was very helpful for people at the WOI. One translated their presentations into Persian and published a booklet that reached all the WOI members and many others across Iran.
