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Zaban-e Zanan

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Zaban-e Zanan
EditorSediqeh Dowlatabadi
CategoriesWomen's magazine
FrequencyWeekly
FounderSediqeh Dowlatabadi
First issue18 July 1919
Final issue1 January 1921
CountryIran
Based inIsfahan

Zaban-e Zanan (Persian: زبان زنان, lit. 'Women's Voice'; pronunciationⓘ ; also Romanized as Zabān-e Zanān) was a Persian-language radical women's periodical, published in Isfahan, Iran, from 18 July 1919 until 1 January 1921, and edited by activist Sediqeh Dowlatabadi.

History and profile

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In 1919 teacher and activist Sediqeh Dowlatabadi founded the magazine Zaban-e Zanan.[1] It was the third women's magazine to be published in Iran, and the first to be published outside Tehran - it was published in Isfahan.[2][3] It was preceded by: Danesh (Knowledge) published from 1910; Shokufeh (Blossom) published from 1913.[4] The first issue was published on 18 July 1919 and started as a bi-weekly periodical.[5] Each issue was four pages long.[6] However, due to demand it moved to weekly publication.[5] It only published submissions from women and girls.[7] The magazine was forced to close on 1 January 1921, due to its anti-British stance.[5]

Reception

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From the outset, Dowlatabadi set out to create articles which would challenge "backwardness and feeble-mindedness" surrounding women's rights in Isfahan.[8] The publication explicitly advocated for 'Unveiling' of women in Iran.[5] As a result of this stance, the publication was attacked in other news outlets, and the premises were physically attacked with stones and with firearms.[9] The magazine ended up being produced under police protection.[5] Two years after its publication, it was banned for 13 months due to the explicitly anticolonial editorial of Dowlatabadi.[10][11]

Zaban e zanan 1945

In 1921, Dowlatabadi moved to Tehran and re-established the magazine there.[1] This iteration was under the same name, but published as a monthly 48-page magazine.[1] This second edition was influential and gives insight into the lives of women in Iran across several decades.[12]

Legacy

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In 2016, Zaban-e Zanan and Dowlatabadi's archives were the subject of an exhibition curated by Azadeh Fatehrad.[13][14][15]

References

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  1. 1 2 3 "128 A women's magazine | Rebels with a Cause". www.iisg.nl. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
  2. ↑ "شبکه بین المللی همبستگی با مبارزات زنان ايران". www.iran-women-solidarity.net. Archived from the original on 15 November 2022. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
  3. ↑ Ali Asghar Kia (1996). A review of journalism in Iran: the functions of the press and traditional communication channels in the Constitutional Revolution of Iran (PhD thesis). University of Wollongong. p. 192. Archived from the original on 16 July 2024. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
  4. ↑ Sanasarian, Eliz (1982). The Women's Rights Movements in Iran. New York: Praeger. pp. 124–129. ISBN 0-03-059632-7.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 "Zaban-e Zanan". www.iranicaonline.org. Archived from the original on 29 October 2020. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
  6. ↑ Somayyeh Mottaghi. (2015). 'The Historical Relationship between Women’s Education and Women’s Activism in Iran' Archived 21 November 2023 at the Wayback Machine Asian Women, 31(1).
  7. ↑ "Sediqeh Dowlatabadi 1882-1961". sister-hood magazine. 26 April 2016. Archived from the original on 15 May 2022. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
  8. ↑ Diana Childress (2011). Equal Rights Is Our Minimum Demand: The Women's Rights Movement in Iran 25. Twenty-First Century Books. p. 33. ISBN 978-0-7613-5770-4.
  9. ↑ "Iranian Personalities: Sediqeh Dowlatabadi". Iran Chamber. Archived from the original on 7 August 2020. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
  10. ↑ "Iran's Feminist Parties". exterminatingangel.com. Archived from the original on 18 January 2021. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
  11. ↑ Camron Michael Amin (2001). "Selling and Saving "Mother Iran": Gender and the Iranian Press in the 1940s". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 33 (3): 335–361. doi:10.1017/S0020743801003014. ISSN 0020-7438. JSTOR 259455. PMID 18159657. Archived from the original on 24 January 2023. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
  12. ↑ شفیعی, سمیه سادات; حسینی فر, سیده زهرا (2018). "نقش های اجتماعی مرجح زنان در آغاز پهلوی دوم؛ کاووشی جامعه شناختی در ماهنامه زبان زنان". فصلنامه علوم اجتماعی. 25 (82). doi:10.22054/qjss.2018.23523.1593.
  13. ↑ "Exhibition: Iran's Women's Movement - On the Archive of Sadiqe Dowlatabadi". Framer Framed. Archived from the original on 18 January 2021. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
  14. ↑ Dazed (21 June 2019). "Three women artists rewriting the troubled history of feminism in Iran". Dazed. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
  15. ↑ Azadeh Fatehrad (7 February 2016). "Iran's women's movement: on the archive of Sadiqe Dowlatabadi". framerframed.nl. Archived from the original on 18 January 2021. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
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