(Un)Making Femininity on the Walls of Tehran

This article explores how a series of street art images in Tehran which address the restriction of the right of women to enter sports stadiums, challenge the official discourse of femininity within the semiotic landscape of Tehran. It investigates how, through techniques of carnivalesque satire, these images subvert the gender order that dominate the official visual discourse of femininity in urban space. The article proposes that the function of this street art series as a form of resistance is enacted both by its internal generic structure, and in relation to the official mural landscape of the cit