Jam'iyat-e Nesvan-e Vatankhah

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Board of Governors of Jam'iyat-e Nesvan-e Vatankhah [Association of Patriotic Women], Tehran, 1922–1932.

Jam'iyat-e Nesvân-e Vatankhâh (Persian: جمعیت نسوان وطنخواه, meaning "Patriotic Women's League of Iran" or "Society of Patriotic Women") (1922–1933), was one of the most active organizations in the Women's rights movement in Iran that formed after the Persian Constitutional Revolution.[1]

History[]

The Society was set up in 1922 under the name, Jamʿīyat-e taraqqī-e neswān, by Mohtaram Eskandari, director of the state school number 5 for girls, who was disappointed with the results of the revolution for women,[2] Noor-ol-Hoda Mangeneh, Mastoureh Afshar, and other women's rights activists.[3]

Their objective was "to emphasize [the] continuous respect for the laws and rituals of Islam; to promote the education and moral upbringing of girls; to encourage national industries; to spread literacy among adult women; to provide care for orphaned girls; to set up hospitals for poor women; to organise co-operatives as a means of developing national industries; and to give material and moral support to the defenders of the country in the event of war."[3] The organization contributed "the most important recorded effort to establish ties with women of the region."[4]

The league held lectures and waged campaigns. The league also published the important women's journal, Nosvan Vatankhah [Patriotic women], from 1922.[3][1]

In 1932, it organized the Oriental Women's Congress in Tehran.[4] When the Congress was over, the orgaization was however dissolved. It was succeeded by Kanoun-e-Banovan in 1935.[5]

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References[]

  1. ^ a b Sanasarian, Eliz. The Women's Rights Movements in Iran, Praeger, New York: 1982, ISBN 0-03-059632-7.
  2. ^ Dawlatšāhī, Mehrangīz (2012). "ESKANDARĪ, MOḤTARAM". Encyclopedia Iranica. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
  3. ^ a b c . Women and the political process in twentieth-century Iran. Cambridge University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-521-59572-X, ISBN 978-0-521-59572-8
  4. ^ a b Homa Hoodfar (Winter 1999). "The Women's Movement in Iran" (PDF). The Women's Movement Series (1). Retrieved 22 September 2014.
  5. ^ Hamideh Sedghi, “FEMINIST MOVEMENTS iii. IN THE PAHLAVI PERIOD,” Encyclopaedia Iranica, IX/5, pp. 492-498, available online at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/feminist-movements-iii (accessed on 30 December 2012).
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