Sediqeh Dowlatabadi

Sediqeh Dowlatabadi (Persian: صدیقه دولت‌آبادی‎ listen ; 1882 in Isfahan – July 30, 1961), was a Persian feminist activist and journalist and one of the pioneering figures in the Persian women's movement.

Sediqeh Dowlatabadi
Sediqeh Dowlatabadi

Dowlatabadi published the first women's gazette in Esfahan called Zaban-e Zanan in 1919. Sediqeh Dowlatabadi was a pioneer in the unveiling of women. In 1925, there was a debate within the intellectual community, newspapers and women's magazines about the unveiling of women as a method of modernizing Iran and increasing women's participation in society, and rumors that the government planned to introduce such a policy: though this reform did not come about, some women from intellectual circles started to appear unveiled in public for the first time, possibly with silent encouragement by the government, and Sediqeh Dowlatabadi is believed to have been the first woman to have done so.[1] When the second Congress of Women of the East was arranged in Teheran in 1932, Princess Shams Pahlavi served as its president and Dowlatabadi as its secretary.[2] When the shah banned the veil in 1936, Sediqeh Dowlatabadi was an active supporter of the reform, and engaged in the new women's committee Kanun-e banovan formed by the government and the shah's daughter Shams to unite women organisations and prepare women for unveiling.[3]

References
  1. Lois Beck, Guity Nashat, Women in Iran from 1800 to the Islamic Republic
  2. Lois Beck, Guity Nashat, Women in Iran from 1800 to the Islamic Republic
  3. Lois Beck, Guity Nashat, Women in Iran from 1800 to the Islamic Republic

Further reading
  • Sediqeh Dowlatabadi: Letters, writings and memories, ed. by Afsaneh Najmabadi & Mahdokht Sanati, 3 vols. (Midland, Chicago 1998). [in Persian]
  • Jasmin Khosravie, Zabān-i Zanān – The Voice of Women. Life and Work of Ṣadīqa Daulatābādī (1882-1961) (EB-Publishers, Berlin 2012). [in German]
  • Mohammad Hossein Khosroupanah, The aims and the fight of Iranian women from the Constitutional Revolution until the Pahlavi dynasty (Payam-e Emruz, Tehran 2002). [in Persian]
  • Afsaneh Najmabadi, Women with mustaches and men without beards: Gender and sexual anxieties of Iranian modernity (Univ. of California Press, Berkeley 2005).
  • Eliz Sanasarian, The women’s movement in Iran: Mutinity, appeasement, and repression from 1900 to Khomeini (Praeger, New York 1982).



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