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Dissertation Information for Jasamin Karin Rostam-Kolayi

NAME:
- Jasamin Karin Rostam-Kolayi

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- History

SCHOOL:
- University of California, Los Angeles (USA) (2000)

ADVISORS:
- Nikkie Keddie

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Michael Morony
- Sondra Hale
- Karen Brodkin

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: The women's press, modern education, and the state in early twentieth-century Iran, 1900--1930s

Abstract: The role of women pioneers, who worked through the new medium of the Iranian women's press to initiate and direct reforms for women in the domains of education, dress, family law, and professional opportunities, is examined. An explanation is offered as to why these women were such loyal supporters of the increasingly authoritarian, patriarchal state of the Reza Shah period.

Diverse sources such as the Persian-language periodical and women's press, government yearbooks, French and American missionary reports, and memoirs are utilized to construct several interrelated narratives. A study of the earliest private and public girls' schools opened by foreign organizations, missionaries, Iranian religious minorities, and Iranian Muslims sets up the context for a discussion of the women's journal Alam-e Nesvan (Women's World, 1920-1934). A product of the efforts of the graduates of Iran Bethel, the American Mission school for girls in Tehran, this journal played an important role in shaping the ideology of Iran's newly educated, urban upper and middle classes.

An analysis of the production of an early Iranian women's journal, its agenda and discourse, and its interaction with the state illuminates the role of the press and of women in shaping the contours of a new political consciousness in Iran. Each interrelated history has in common the modernist, nationalist project of "remaking women" in the form of middle-class, professional household managers, scientific mothers, and wives. The project of remaking women had profound implications in shaping twentieth-century political and cultural trends, especially in regard to defining the meaning of the modern nation-state and of women's place, role, and rights in it, issues that continue to be at the center of struggles in Iran today.

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