Women's rights movement in Iran
- Women's rights movement in Iran
The Iranian women's movement, involves Iranian women's social movement for women's rights. The movement first emerged, some time after Iranian Constitutional Revolution, in 1910, the year in which the first Women Journal was published by women. The movement lasted until 1933 in which the last women’s association was dissolved by the Reza Shah’s government. It heightened again after the Iranian Revolution (1979). [Sanasarian, Eliz. "The Women's Rights Movements in Iran", Praeger, New York: 1982, ISBN 0-03-059632-7.] [Afary, Janet. "The Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1906 - 1911", Columbia University Press, 1996.]
Activists
*Sediqeh Dowlatabadi (1882-1962)
*Mohtaram Eskandari (1895–1924)
*Zandokht Shirazi
*Parvin Ardalan (1967–)
*Noushin Ahmadi khorasani (1970–)
*Shadi Sadr (1975–)
see also
*Women's rights in Iran
*Iranian women
*One million signatures campaign
*Global Women's movement
*Intellectual movements in Iran
References
External Links
Women's rights groups Websites:
* [http://www.meydaan.org Women's Field]
* [http://iftribune.com/ Iranian Feminist Tribune] (in Persian)
* [http://www.irwomen.com/index.php Focus of Iranian Women] (in Persian)
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