Female entertainment and gender order from the perspective of foreign travelogues of the Qajar period

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 associate professor, Department of History , Payame noor university, Tehran, Iran

2 Master's degree in the history of Iran in the Islamic period, Payam Noor University of Kermanshah

10.22034/jiiph.2024.55622.2413

Abstract

The travelogues of the Qajar period give a narrative about the position of women and their recreational and entertainment-oriented tendencies, from which one can better understand the spaces and patterns governing the gender order and its impact on the formation of special patterns of female entertainment. What is highlighted in these narratives is the position of women in a special gender discourse, which, under the influence of the social and cultural relations of a patriarchal, religious and traditional society, puts a special model of fun and entertainment in front of women. This work tries to answer the main question by relying on the historical method and using the descriptive-analytical technique, how can the narrative of the travelogues about the female leisure patterns show the influence of the dominant gender order on the learning of these leisure orders? The achievement of this research is that the travelogues of the Qajar period, by presenting a narrative with details, have placed women's entertainment and tendencies towards women's entertainment in a context of social relationships that can be traced to the dominant gender discourse and order. Its effect was achieved on the special patterns of women's leisure.

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Journal of Iranian Islamic Period History

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 26 June 2024

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  • Receive Date: 27 February 2023
  • Revise Date: 28 April 2024
  • Accept Date: 24 June 2024

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