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Ph.D Student in Iran's Islamic History in University of Tehran
Abstract
Tendency to superstitious and using Talismans and spell was common in Qajar Era. Yet this issue was more, or fundamentally, defined as a feminine phenomenon. This kind of view had some roots and sources as well as some effects and results. This paper is going to study its roots and results and ask why and how it exited. It seems that the main reason for defining superstitious as a feminine phenomenon is the superiority of men in comparison with women in Qajar Era. Women usually were considered as weak and powerless creatures. The result of this thought was a kind of women-phobia. This phobia naturally made a condition in which women deprived of their rights to participate in the Constitutional Revolution parliament election. In the middle of Qajar Era, some of Iranian reformists found a meaningful relationship between social lagging and Iranian women lagging. They tried to show the social and historical roots of society problems, like women problems, and challenge the old and traditional thoughts and open a new route for reform in Iran.
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