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Mirshams Shahshahani S, Tabatabai A S, Aminin E. (2018). Representation of Gender Stereotypes in Persian Rap Music. Social Problems of Iran. 9(1), 125-146.
URL: http://jspi.khu.ac.ir/article-1-2910-en.html

Current research patterns and analyzes representations of gender stereotypes in Persian rap music. This study uses qualitative content analysis method and reviews 95 Persian rap songs using non-probabilistic and purposeful sampling method. Related categories of gender stereotyped in Persian rap are thus identified and analyzed.
There are three identifiable major categories and ten sub categories. The main issues in women's representation in the Persian rap are "Woman in Subordinate Position" (with subcategories of Traditional mother, girl victim in acute social conditions, men’s preferred role for women and failed woman) and "Cheating Woman" (with sub-categories of girl as Sexual Subject and Faithless lover) and men are also in the main category of "man in an upright position" (with the subcategories of friendly relations based on masculinity, role of the father in the family, fathers’ acute social conditions, Masculine authority, Profit-oriented man) in the Persian rap, and their themes can be analyzed in line with existing gender stereotypes.
In a final analysis, many of the Persian rappers’ songs are masculine and their audience are men. In these poems, a woman under patriarchal intellectual space and dominant gender stereotypes in society is unconsciously ignored as a goal and subject, and basically, women, their identities and their concerns do not have a place in these poems. Even in a lot of social songs and Persian rap protest songs The expression of women's issues in the Iranian society has been expressed in male perspective, which can be said to lead to the reproduction of the same unequal social structures in society against women.