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

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

Najmabadi, Afsaneh

Paperback

Series: Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East

General Gender StudiesIran HistoryWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0815627912
ISBN13: 9780815627913
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: Dec 1 1998
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.05 Depth: 9.08
Language: English

In 1905, the year preceding the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, Iranian women and girls were sold by needy peasants to pay their taxes, or taken as booty in a raid by Turkoman tribesmen against a village settlement in Northeast Iran. The telling and retelling of the event became a focus for outage and grievance, contributing to both popular mobilizations against autocracy and a constitutional regime. Indeed, the narration of this event took all of Iran by storm.

Shortly after the opening of a new parliament in 1906, relatives of some of the captive women demanded that the parliament punish those responsible. The newly reconstituted Ministry of Justice investigated the matter and actually tried several people who were alleged to be responsible.

In The Story of the Daughters of Quchan, Afsaneh Najambodi investigates what made this incident more powerful. How did a familiar incident of rural destitution and the story of yet another Turkoman raid became a uniquely outrageous story? Although it captured the Iranian national imagination, this event has been all but forgotten. What does this amnesia tell us about the political culture or modern Iran, as well as that country's national memory, and about modernist historiography, as well as that country's national memory, and about modernist historiography in general?

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