ABSTRACT
As Iranians, they are a generation of women whose life experiences as young girls were and remain inconceivable to many, in particular, women in today's Iran. They were the children of the privileged-class families, rich and educated, with parents who had already been exposed to and, in some ways, had embraced the Western culture. The social class distinction and the surging discontent in Iran was salient in the 1970s but they, as children of the privileged, were oblivious to the lives of the majority of Iranians, who lived austere lives and struggled with societal class mobility. To some extent, the Islamic Revolution had sprung upon the likes of us because we had been so sheltered. Carol Gilligan's (1982) well-known work on the psychology of women suggests that adolescence is often a time of disconnection, perhaps dissociation or repression in a woman's life.
