MEN WRITING WOMEN: “THE WOMAN QUESTION” AND MALE DISCOURSE OF IRANIAN MODERNITY"

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dc.contributor.advisorKarimi-Hakkak, Ahmaden_US
dc.contributor.authorAllamezade, Saharen_US
dc.contributor.departmentComparative Literatureen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-03T05:42:33Z
dc.date.available2016-09-03T05:42:33Z
dc.date.issued2016en_US
dc.description.abstractIn this dissertation I explore “The Woman Question” in the discourse of Iranian male authors. A pro-modernity group, they placed women’s issues at the heart of their discourse. This dissertation follows the trajectory of the representation of “The Woman Question” as it is reflected in the male discourse over the course of a century. It discusses the production of a literature that was anchored in the idea of reform and concerned itself with issues pertaining to women. These men challenged lifelong patriarchal notions such as veiling, polygamy, gender segregation, and arranged marriages, as well as traditional roles of women and gender relations. This study is defined under the rubrics of “The Woman Question” and “The New Woman,” which I have borrowed from the Victorian and Edwardian debates of similar issues as they provide clearer delineations. Drawing upon debates on sexuality, and gender, this dissertation illustrates the way these men championed women was both progressive and regressive. This study argues that the desire for women’s liberation was couched in male ideology of gender relations. It further illustrates that the advancement of “The Woman Question,” due to its continuous and yet gradual shifting concurrent with each author’s nuanced perception of women’s issues, went through discernible stages that I refer to as observation, causation, remedy, and confusion. The analytical framework for this project is anchored in the “why” and the “how” of the Iranian male authors’ writings on women in addition to “what” was written. This dissertation examines four narrative texts—two in prose and two in poetry—entitled: “Lankaran’s Vizier,” “The Black Shroud,” “‘Arefnameh,” and “Fetneh” written respectively by Akhundzadeh, ‘Eshqi, Iraj Mirza, and Dashti. Chapter one outlines the historical background, methodology, theoretical framework, and literature review. The following chapters examine, the advocacy for companionate marriage and romantic love, women and nationalistic cause, veiling and unveiling, and the emerging figure of the New Iranian Woman as morally depraved.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2KB8D
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/18601
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledComparative literatureen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledMiddle Eastern literatureen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledWomen's studiesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledIranian Literatureen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledIranian Male Discourseen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledIranian Womenen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledIranian Women and Genderen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledIranian Women in Literatureen_US
dc.titleMEN WRITING WOMEN: “THE WOMAN QUESTION” AND MALE DISCOURSE OF IRANIAN MODERNITY"en_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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