Most scholarship on the nineteenth and early twentieth century Constitutional Revolution in Iran has focused on the role of two groups, intellectuals and the clergy. The role of women has largely been ignored, despite their widespread participation in the Revolution, and existing research on women has mainly focused on their achievements in the realm of women’s rights, which means that other aspects of women’s activism remain un-investigated. The aim of this book is twofold: first, it presents one of the very first studies of women’s resistance strategies and their resistance to consumerism in Iran; second, and in relation to the first objective, it attempts to demonstrate the biased nature of knowledge production in the studies of women in past societies, particularly the role of women in economics. This book therefore explores the public role of women and their efforts to revive Iran’s economy during and after the Constitutional Revolution.
Author(s): Maryam Dezhamkhooy
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 139
City: Cham
Foreword
Acknowledgment
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
References
Chapter 2: Why Women Are Absent from Political and Economic Histories?
Methodological Traps: West/East, Man/Woman, Public/Private
References
Chapter 3: The Pre-Revolution Struggles and the Emergence of New Classes
The Court, Government, and Roaya in the Late Nineteenth Century
Foreign Trade and the Pervasive Economic Crisis
The Pre-Revolution Struggles and the Emergence of Modern Classes
References
Sources
Chapter 4: Women, Daily Life, and Street: Women’s Participation in the Nineteenth-Century Demonstrations
Women and Daily Life: Discussing the Body of Evidence
Women and Street Protests
Writing as Resistance: The Formation of a New Class of Women Intellectuals
Summing Up: Women’s Situation on the Eve of Constitutional Revolution
References
Chapter 5: Economic Crisis, the Coloniality of Consumption, and Women’s Resistance
The Constitutional Revolution (1906–1911)
Women’s Agency in the Constitutional Revolution
West Economic Encroachment and Farangi Ma’abi: 1909–1925
The Coloniality of Consumption and Everyday Forms of Resistance
References
Chapter 6: From Resistance to Repression: Modernization and Transformations of Women’s Movement
Systematic Suppression of the Press and Women’s Independent Organizations in Post-Constitutional Era II (1921–1941)
The Emergence of State-Sponsored Women’s Organizations and Depoliticized Domesticity
Class Interest and Transformations of Women’s Resistance
References
Chapter 7: Epilogue
References
Index
