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| Categories | Women's magazine |
|---|---|
| Frequency | Biweekly |
| Publisher | Maryam Amid Mozayen ol-Saltaneh |
| Founded | 1913 |
| Final issue | 1919 |
| Country | Iran |
| Based in | Tehran |
| Language | Persian |
| Website | Shokufeh |
After the publication of the first Persian women’s magazine Danesh in Tehran in 1910–1911, Shokufeh (Persian: شكوفه; DMG: Šokufeh; English meaning: "Blossom"), the next Persian magazine only for women, was established in 1913.[1] The magazine was headquartered in Tehran and published on a biweekly basis.[2] The editor was Maryam Amid Mozayen ol-Saltaneh, the daughter of Aqa Mirza Sayyed Razi Ra’is al-Atebba, a high-ranking medical advisor at the Qajar court.[3] Almost at the same time, Mozayen ol-Saltaneh founded the Iranian Women’s Society Anjoman Khavatin Irani, which objectives she published in the Shokufeh magazine.[4] She supported particularly the promotion of Iranian products and industry as well as education, science and art among women.[4]
At first the magazine dealt predominantly with topics that concerned mainly women, like equality of rights, education, upbringing, hygiene and ethics.[5] In the course of the work of the Iranian Women’s Society the topics started to be more political, whereby the national independence and the woman's role were addressed.[5] Shokufeh claimed not to interfere in the men's political sphere, but was unable always to keep to it, which brought the magazine under censorship.[3] After Mozayen ol-Saltanehs death in 1919 the publication of Shokufeh was suspended.
- ^ Gholam Khiabany; Annabelle Sreberny (2004). "The Women's Press in Contemporary Iran: Engendering the Public Sphere". In Naomi Sakr (ed.). Women and Media in the Middle East Power through Self-Expression. London: I.B.Tauris. p. 16. doi:10.5040/9780755604838.ch-002. ISBN 978-1-85043-545-7.
- ^ Ali Asghar Kia (1996). A review of journalism in Iran: the functions of the press and traditional communication channels in the Constitutional Revolution of Iran (PhD thesis). University of Wollongong. p. 192.
- ^ a b Camron Michael Amin. (2002). The Making of the Modern Iranian Woman: Gender, State Policy, and Popular Culture, 1865–1946, Gainesville, pp. 40-41.
- ^ a b Parvin Paidar. (1995). Women and the Political Process in Twentieth-Century Iran, Cambridge, p. 92.
- ^ a b Hamideh Sedghi. (2007). Women and Politics in Iran: Veiling, Unveiling, and Reveiling, Cambridge, p. 55.