Iranian women have been characterized by the dominant Western colonial narrative as evidence of the monolithic, regressive and oppressive practices of a particular religious group, a symbol of female subordination. In contrast to the Western narrative, Iranian women project ways of resisting, asserting and constructing their female identities against the oppressive political, institutional and social systems that seek their heteronomy.
The aim of this thesis is to highlight the ways in which Iranian writers represent and claim their identities as women. In order to trace their ways of representation, two graphic memoirs by Iranian Diaspora women are studied and analyze by utilizing the method of comic analysis. As it turns out, Iranian women embody ways of resisting the dominant mechanisms of oppression by claiming the right to self-determination.