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Qajar Women

Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran, a Harvard University website

qajarwomen.org: The goal of Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran is to address a gap in scholarship and understanding of the lives of women during the Qajar era (1796 - 1925) in Iran by developing a comprehensive digital resource that preserves, links, and renders accessible primary-source materials related to the social and cultural history of women's worlds in Qajar Iran. Through the use of technology it brings together little known archives scattered across the world.

Given the dearth of available primary-source materials related to women in the Qajar era, it is not surprising that, to date, the vast majority of Qajar social histories have focused almost exclusively on the struggles, achievements, and day-to-day realities of the men of that period. This is in part a matter of expediency; while men's writing have been easily accessible in various national archives for decades (and many have in more recent years been published in edited volumes), most women's writings, photographs, and other personal papers have to date remained sequestered in private family hands.

WWQI aims to open up the documented social and cultural histories of Qajar women, thus allowing for the examinations of broader patterns of life during this era. Our collection has paid specific attention to materials that will illuminate women's relations to each other and to family members of various generations >>>

06-May-2011
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amirparvizforsecularmonarchy

Strange site

by amirparvizforsecularmonarchy on

This site accurately dates the qajar era as pre 1925, yet if you go to the photo archives and look at the dates of each of the 240 or so photos almost none are from that period, maybe 2 from 1909, the rest of the photos are from 1930's to 1960's how is that qajar iran???


Jahanshah Javid

Great idea

by Jahanshah Javid on

A great idea in the hands of a great scholar. Only good things can come out of it.


comments

Brilliant, and thank you.

by comments on

Brilliant, and thank you.


afshin

Thank god for western scholarship

by afshin on

After visiting the links above, all I can say is thank god for Western scholarship and interest.  Left to our own devices much of the documents archived would have found themselves discarded. Much like most of our history we've had to depend on outsiders to guard our heritage and preserve our history.