Pictorial Modernity and the Armenian Women of Iran
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9978646 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Houri Berberian (University of California, Irvine), Talinn Grigor (University of California, Davis, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 463-500 |
| Publication date | 2022-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Iranian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-0862 • E-ISSN: 1475-4819 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/irn.2021.18 |
| OpenAlex | W4225827653 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 34 |
The essay explores the entangled relationship between modernization and women's visibility and representation through three pictorial spheres most redolent of that relationship: photo studio culture (1880s–1930s), satirical cartoons (1920–58), and costume exhibition (1972–76). The study prioritizes minoritarian politics formulated by women through their organizations and public activities, whether charitable in the late nineteenth century, educational in the early twentieth century, or “civilizational” from the mid-twentieth century on. By examining pictorial and textual sources, it proposes that the Armenian woman as a discursive phenomenon was central to Iran's mainstream modernization and foregrounds the complex working of a double marginality to the processes, strategies, and anxieties of late Qajar and Pahlavi modernization
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Armenian · Art · Art history · Exhibition · Mainstream · Modernity · Modernization theory · Phenomenon · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Sociology · Studio · Visual arts · Gender Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy · Turkey's Politics and Society
Sisterhood is Global
Hazards of Modernity and Morality
Liminalities of Gender and Sexuality in Nineteenth Century Iranian Photography
Iran Between Two Revolutions
Social History of Women and Gender in the Modern Middle East
Iran
Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards
Autocratic Control and Urban Design
From Sitters to Photographers
Photography in Iran
Between orientalist clichés and images of modernization
The Mass Repatriation of the Armenians from Iran in 1946-1947 (Some Statistical Data)
Origins of Iran’s Modern Girls’ Schools
Importing “Beauty Culture” Into Iran in the 1920s and 1930s
Nineteenth-Century Qajar Women in the Public Sphere
Ladies who Lounge
Diversity at Alborz
From Evangelizing to Modernizing Iranians
Promoting the Advancement of Women
To Be or Not To Be An Orientalist
Print Culture in Late Qajar Iran
Urban Change in Iran, 1920–1941
From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean
Selling and Saving “Mother Iran”
Of Mimicry and Man
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |