{"id":2918,"date":"2018-11-30T12:35:56","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T17:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/?p=2918"},"modified":"2018-12-05T12:31:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T17:31:08","slug":"womens-worlds-in-qajar-iran-digital-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/womens-worlds-in-qajar-iran-digital-archives\/","title":{"rendered":"Women’s Worlds in Qajar Iran Digital Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"

Women’s Worlds in Qajar Iran<\/a> (WWQI)<\/strong> is a digital archive of materials related to the lives of women during the Qajar era, inclusive of the period immediately preceding and following the dynastic period (1786 -1925). The goal of WWQI is to address a gap in scholarship and understanding of the lives of women during the Qajar era.<\/p>\n

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\u201cGiven the dearth of available primary-source materials related to women in the Qajar era, it is not surprising that, to date, the vast majority of Qajar social histories have focused almost exclusively on the struggles, achievements, and day-to-day realities of the men of that period. This is in part a matter of expediency; while men’s writing have been easily accessible in various national archives for decades (and many have in more recent years been published in edited volumes), most women’s writings, photographs, and other personal papers have to date remained sequestered in private family hands.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

WWQI aims to open up the documented social and cultural histories of Qajar women, thus allowing for the examinations of broader patterns of life during this era.<\/p>\n

The materials included in the archive are not only those contained in private archives and manuscripts but also published materials from the Middle Eastern Collection in Widener Library and other institutions. They consist of<\/strong>:<\/p>\n