@2024 Afarand., IRAN

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ISSN: 2251-8215    Sarem Journal of Reproductive Medicine 2017;1(2):

Aims In the Constitutional Revolution, Iranian women were politically and socially ‎active alongside the men. They were involved in many events, including secret ‎societies, demonstrations, freedom-loving groups. More importantly, the Iranian ‎women were at the focal point of suffering amid the time of the Revolution, ‎fighting against Mohammad Ali Shah's autocracy, until the Shah was forced to step ‎down and there was a transition to the Constitution. Since then, the Iranian women ‎contributed to political, cultural, and social developments, including developing ‎women's journalism. Consequently, periodicals such as: Danesh, Shokoufeh, ‎Zabane Zanan, Nameye Banovan, Alame Neswan, Jahane Neswan, Neswane watan ‎khah and Neswane Sharq, joined other magazines. In this study, we are going to ‎review one of the above magazines, Danesh (Knowledge), which was the first ‎Journal to examine women's Journalism, i.e. first woman Journalist and first ‎woman doctor in Iran.‎
Conclusion The first women’s Iranian journal was published in 1907 by a physician who was ‎woman, while there are not any samples had been seen in middle-east region and ‎in the Islam’s world, the period when women in Iran were among the most ‎modern women in the world. On 31st of August 1910, the permission to publish ‎‎"Danesh" by the name of Dr. Sommayeh Kahal was granted, which as was cited in ‎the magazine, educating women & girls, promoting women's morality & house-‎keeping, bringing up kids, and healthcare, hygienic principles for women & kids ‎were focused‎.