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The Story of the Daughters of Quchan - Gender and National Memory in Iranian History (Paperback, New)
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The Story of the Daughters of Quchan - Gender and National Memory in Iranian History (Paperback, New)
Series: Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
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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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