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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (3): 307–325.
Published: 01 November 2020
..., social, and moral attitudes toward female sexuality. References Abrahamian Ervand . 1979 . “ The Causes of the Constitutional Revolution in Iran .” International Journal of Middle East Studies 10 , no. 3 : 381 – 414 . Afary Janet . 1995 . The Iranian Constitutional Revolution...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 337–358.
Published: 01 November 2022
... media in ways similar to the monolithic and essentialized representations of Afghan women in the post-9/11 era or Iranian women following the 1979 Iranian Revolution. The present work questions why this misrepresentation takes place and what renders the representation of Kurdish women Orientalist...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (1): 82–104.
Published: 01 March 2014
... the boundary markers of what constitutes the “real Sudanese” as well as the exclusionary limits of its opposite other. In what follows, I explore how these gender dynamics evinced by Hale in her discussion of Sudan shed light on the situation in Egypt’s ongoing revolution, where Islamic political...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 132–140.
Published: 01 March 2024
... and gender equality. During the twentieth century Iran witnessed two revolutions: the Constitutional Revolution of 1905 and the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Women played an influential role in the mobilization of both revolutions, but they were the first group to be ignored in their aftermath. Moreover...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 1–21.
Published: 01 November 2006
... e revolution was led by a class coalition of merchants, artisans, culama, and small groups of intellectuals, all united by the will to force a constitutional government on the ruling Qajar dynasty (Abrahamian 1979; Foran 1991). Although they are absent from most historical ac...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (2): 242–244.
Published: 01 July 2024
.... The book is structured into two parts. Part 1 first probes the emergence of women’s newspapers and magazines in Iran’s print media and draws on women’s search for public voices and roles since the Constitutional Revolution (1906–11). This section later discusses the transformation of Ettela’at-e Banuvan...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 277–286.
Published: 01 July 2021
...] is, the continuity of this erasure of women’s agency across political regimes. It’s very important to know that independent women’s organizations started during the Constitutional Revolution (1905–11), and thrived and proliferated in the last decade of the Qajar period and the first decade of Pahlavi rule...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (1): 158–161.
Published: 01 March 2005
... of Literature of Tehran University and her PhD in Modern Middle East History from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is currently an As- sociate Professor of History and Women’s Studies at Purdue University. Dr. Afary is author of The Iranian Constitutional Revolution: Grassroots Democ...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (2): 32–57.
Published: 01 July 2013
.... GENDERING TURKISH MODERNITY The 1908 Ottoman constitutional revolution (which Halide Edib de- scribes in the first volume of her memoirs) opened the way for changes in the education and public visibility of women. In that year, Halide Edib helped establish the Society for the Elevation...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (3): 58–88.
Published: 01 November 2008
... from Bombay, supported from funds from India. (Board 1936) In the years immediately following the Constitutional Revolution (1905– 11), the Supreme Council on Education issued 49 licenses for Armenian, 7 for Zoroastrian, and 30 for Jewish schools.3 Among Iran’s religio-ethnic...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (3): 109–119.
Published: 01 November 2007
... of Iran the revolution of 1978–79 produced a rupture for some scholars who for a period could no longer go to the field. Historical research on this topic has expanded over the past two decades for several Middle Eastern countries, but perhaps because of the enormous impact of the Iranian...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 213–226.
Published: 01 July 2020
... through the parliamentary debates around this story. But when you read histories of the Constitutional Revolution, they virtually fade out of narratives. In the histories that are closer to the time, sometimes they are discussed. But as you go further and further away from that period, occasionally...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (1): 147–157.
Published: 01 March 2005
... University. Dr. Afary is author of The Iranian Constitutional Revolution: Grassroots Democracy, Social Democracy, and the Origins of Feminism , which was also translated and published in Iran, and co-author of the forthcoming Foucault, Gender, and the Iranian Revolution: Seductions of Islamism . She...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (3): 89–118.
Published: 01 November 2008
... Revolution of 1906, sharia was considered the only law, and judges pronounced their decisions according to sharia. Aft er the Constitutional Revolution, the structure of a modern and secularized judiciary gradually took shape, combining elements of Western law and sharia practices...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 6–30.
Published: 01 March 2008
..., conclude alliances, and provide alternative leadership to other factions—was not born with the liberties of Iran’s Constitutional Revolution of 1905–06. Under both deeply ingrained and newly institutionalized gender hierarchies, feminist groups and indi- vidual feminists had to struggle against...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (2): 1–24.
Published: 01 July 2005
... in the Consti- tutional Revolution of 1906, which established a parliament and constitution in Iran for the first time (Afary 1996; Abrahamian 1982). Although secular reform in Iranian political life was achieved in the aftermath of the constitu- tional movement, religiosity had hardly disappeared from...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 103–123.
Published: 01 July 2020
... patriarchs from the government and the provincial capital, are also emasculated when the project fails. Afsaneh Najmabadi ( 1998 : 46) shows that the typical story of valiant Iranian nationalism, as early as the 1906 Constitutional Revolution, has in part been a story of male guardians protecting women...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11412039.
Published: 19 September 2024
... of the Constitutional Revolution (1905 11) and was increasingly taken up by the Pahlavi state (Elling 2013: 40 41; Kashani-Sabet 1999: 103 4, 208 13; Swietochowski 1995: 122 23). Nevertheless, no one ethnic group exclusively dominated the state (Atabaki 2014: 222). Furthermore, the establishment of modern ethnic...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (3): 75–98.
Published: 01 November 2007
... AND THE REVOLUTION OF 1979 The Iranian revolution was the culmination of decades of mobilization by political forces espousing various political ideologies (Zahedi 1992, 328). Women participating in the revolution adhered to different politi- cal ideologies, some secular, others religious. They did...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 238–259.
Published: 01 July 2022
... the resistance to the government’s gender and sexual politics through living and visiting the other side of Tehran. As the capital, with a population of more than 7 million and a long history of hosting social movements even before urban fights for the Constitutional Revolution of 1906, Tehran is represented...