Shahnaz Rushdieh, also known as Shahnaz Azad () (19011961), was a journalist and a pioneer of the
women's movement in Iran. She was also the editor of the Women's Letter.
[فرخزاد. پوران، ص.۳۵]
Early life
Shahnaz was born in a cultural and middle-class family in Tabriz city . Her father
Haji-Mirza Hassan Roshdieh
Haji Mirza Hassan Tabrizi (میرزا حسن تبریزی; July 4, 1851, Tabriz – December 12, 1944, Qom), famously known as Hassan Roshdieh (حسن رشدیه), was an Iranian cleric, teacher, politician, and journalist. He introduced some mod ...
was a well-educated and a schoolboy. During her youth years, she married Abolqasem Azad Maraghi, who was a journalist. In the year 1920, before the age of 20, she also published the Women's Letter for women's awareness in Iran about their rights. She published articles on
women's rights
Women's rights are the rights and Entitlement (fair division), entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide. They formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the 19th century and the feminist movements during the 20th and 21st c ...
,
hijab
Hijab (, ) refers to head coverings worn by Women in Islam, Muslim women. Similar to the mitpaḥat/tichel or Snood (headgear), snood worn by religious married Jewish women, certain Christian head covering, headcoverings worn by some Christian w ...
, national and international news, and all her articles were written for women. Shahnaz along with her husband, were faced with harassment, imprisonment and exile, shortage of funds and financial problems for the publication of their Newspapers.
[فرخزاد. پوران، ص.۳۵][ساناساریان ]Eliz Sanasarian
Eliz Sanasarian is an Iranian-American professor of political science at the University of Southern California. She is best known for her expertise and books on ethnic politics and feminism, particularly regarding the Middle East and Iran
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، ص. ۷۵ و ۵۹
Death
Shahnaz Azad died at the age of 60 in 1961.
[فرخزاد. پوران، ص.۳۵]
See also
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Women in Constitutional Revolution
The Iranian women participated actively in constitutional () struggles. From the year 1906 Women's Organization of Iran, women's organizations were formed and many women participated in constitutionalism. But the National Women's Movement was just ...
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Persian Constitutional Revolution
The Persian Constitutional Revolution (, or ''Enghelāb-e Mashrūteh''), also known as the Constitutional Revolution of Iran, took place between 1905 and 1911 during the Qajar Iran, Qajar era. The revolution led to the establishment of a Majl ...
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Women's rights movement in Iran
The Iranian Women's Rights Movement (Persian language, Persian: جنبش زنان ایران), is the social movement for women's rights of the women in Iran. The movement first emerged after the Iranian Constitutional Revolution in 1910, the y ...
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Women's rights in Iran
During the late 20th and early 21st centuries in Iran, women's rights have been severely restricted, compared with those in most developed nations. The World Economic Forum's 2017 Global Gender Gap Report ranked Iran 140, out of 144 countries ...
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References
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Eliz Sanasarian
Eliz Sanasarian is an Iranian-American professor of political science at the University of Southern California. She is best known for her expertise and books on ethnic politics and feminism, particularly regarding the Middle East and Iran
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. ''The Women's Rights Movements in Iran''. 1982, Rebellion, decline and repression from 1901 to the 1979 revolution, First print, Tehran: Akhtaran Publishing House 2005 (طغیان، افول و سرکوب از ۱۲۸۰ تا انقلاب ۱۳۵۷) . (Original from the University of Michigan)
* Pooran Faroukhzad, Iranian women's labors (from yesterday to today) Tehran: Qatar Newspaper 2002.کارنمای زنان کارای ایران (از دیروز تا امروز) .
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1901 births
1961 deaths
Iranian Azerbaijanis
Iranian women's rights activists
Iranian feminists
Iranian women journalists