The Story of the Daughters of Quchan: Gender and National Memory in Iranian History by Afsaneh Najmabadi

The Story of the Daughters of Quchan: Gender and National Memory in Iranian History

Afsaneh Najmabadi

260 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history informative reflective slow-paced
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In 1905 Iranian women had been sold to pay taxes or taken as booty in a raid by tribesmen from a village. The narration of this event took all Iran by storm and shortly after the opening of the new parliament in 1906 relatives of these women deman...

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