The Story of the Daughters of Quchan

Gender and National Memory in Iranian History

By:

Afsaneh Najmabadi

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East

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In 1905, the year preceding the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, Iranian women and girls were sold by needy peasants to pay their taxes, or taken as booty in a raid by Turkoman tribesmen against a village settlement in Northeast Iran. The telling and retelling of the event became a focus for outage and grievance, contributing to both popular mobilizations against autocracy and a constitutional regime. Indeed, the narration of this event took all of Iran by storm. Shortly after the opening of a new parliament in 1906, relatives of some of the captive women demanded that the parliament punish those responsible. The newly reconstituted Ministry of Justice investigated the matter and actually tried several people who were alleged to be responsible. In The Story of the Daughters of Quchan, Afsaneh Najambodi investigates what made this incident more powerful. How did a familiar incident of rural destitution and the story of yet another Turkoman raid became a uniquely outrageous story? Although it captured the Iranian national imagination, this event has been all but forgotten. What does this "amnesia" tell us about the political culture or modern Iran, as well as that country's national memory, and about modernist historiography, as well as that country's national memory, and about modernist historiography in general?

Author Biography:

Afsaneh Najambodi is associate professor of women's studies at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is presently at work on a book on gender in modern Iran.

Release date Australia

November 30th, 1998

Author

Afsaneh Najmabadi

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Illustrations

5 black and white illustrations

Pages

260

Series

Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East

Dimensions

152x229x15

ISBN-13

9780815627913

Product ID

6109228

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