Zaban-e Zanan

Zaban-e Zanan, Persian: زبان زنان , English: Women's Voice was a radical women's periodical, published in Iran from 1919-21 and edited by activist Sediqeh Dowlatabadi.

Zaban-e Zanan
1940s edition
TypeWeekly
Formatcompact
Founder(s)Sediqeh Dowlatabadi
Editor-in-chiefSediqeh Dowlatabadi
Founded18 July 1919
Relaunched1921
HeadquartersIsfahan

History

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 publsihed in Isfahan.[2] It was preceded by: Danesh (Knowledge) published from 1910; Shokufeh (Blossom) published from 1913.[3] The first issue was published on 18 July 1919 and started as a bi-weekly periodical.[4] Each issue was four pages long.[5] However due to demand it moved to weekly publication.[4] It only published submissions from women and girls.[6] The magazine was forced to close on 1 January 1921, due to its anti-British stance.[4]

Reception

From the outset, Dowlatabadi set out to create articles which would challenge "backwardness and feeble-mindedness" surrounding women's rights in Isfahan.[7] The publication explicitly advocated for 'Unveiling' of women in Iran.[4] 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.[8] The magazine ended up being produced under police protection.[4] Two years after its publication, it was banned for 13 months due to the explicitly anticolonial editorial of Dowlatabadi.[9][10]

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.[11]

Legacy

In 2016, Zaban-e Zanan and Dowlatabadi's archives were the subject of an exhibition curated by Azadeh Fatehrad.[12][13][14]

References
  1. "128 A women's magazine | Rebels with a Cause". www.iisg.nl. Retrieved 2020-12-15.
  2. "شبکه بین المللی همبستگی با مبارزات زنان ايران". www.iran-women-solidarity.net. Retrieved 2020-12-15.
  3. Sanasarian, Eliz (1982). The Women's Rights Movements in Iran. New York: Praeger. pp. 124–129. ISBN 0-03-059632-7.
  4. "ZABĀN-E ZANĀN". www.iranicaonline.org. Retrieved 2020-12-15.
  5. Somayyeh Mottaghi: 'The Historical Relationship between Women’s Education and Women’s Activism in Iran' Asian Women 2015 Vol.31 No.1
  6. "Sediqeh Dowlatabadi 1882-1961". sister-hood magazine. A Fuuse production by Deeyah Khan. 2016-04-26. Retrieved 2020-12-15.
  7. Childress, Diana (2011-01-01). 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.
  8. "Iranian Personalities: Sediqeh Dowlatabadi". www.iranchamber.com. Retrieved 2020-12-15.
  9. "Iran's Feminist Parties". exterminatingangel.com. Retrieved 2020-12-15.
  10. Amin, Camron Michael (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.
  11. 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.
  12. "Exhibition: Iran's Women's Movement - On the Archive of Sadiqe Dowlatabadi". Framer Framed. Retrieved 2020-12-15.
  13. Dazed (2019-06-21). "Three women artists rewriting the troubled history of feminism in Iran". Dazed. Retrieved 2020-12-15.
  14. Fatehrad, Azadeh (2016-02-07). "Iran's women's movement : on the archive of Sadiqe Dowlatabadi". framerframed.nl. Retrieved 2020-12-15.
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