Democratic Organization of Iranian Women

The Democratic Organization of Iranian Women (DAW; Persian: تشکیلات دموکراتیک زنان ایران‎) is women's wing of the Tudeh Party of Iran.

Not to be confused with Women's Organization of Iran.
Organization of Iranian Women
Founded18 February 1943 (1943-02-18)
NewspaperBidari-e Ma
IdeologyMarxist feminism
National affiliationTudeh Party of Iran
International affiliationWomen's International Democratic Federation
SloganPersian: ما هم در این خانه حقی داریم‎
"We, too, have rights in this house"[1]
Website
tdzi.org

Led by Maryam Firouz,[2] it was founded in 1943 as the 'Organization of Iranian Women' (OIW) (Persian: تشکیلات زنان ایران‎, romanized: Tashkilat-i Zanan-i Iran) and joined Women's International Democratic Federation in 1947.[1]

The organization "demanded radical transformations in the laws governing the rights of women in the family and at the workplace", according to Hammed Shahidian.[3] They published a monthly magazine named Bidari-e Ma (lit. 'Our Awakening'), edited by Zahra Eskandari-Bayat.[1]

OIW was banned in 1949, along with Tudeh itself and other affiliates, but the party managed to revived it in 1951 with another name: 'Democratic Organization of Iranian Women'.[1]

References
  1. Paydar, Parvin (1995). Women and the Political Process in Twentieth-Century Iran. Cambridge University Press. pp. 124–5. ISBN 978-0-521-59572-8.
  2. Behrooz, Maziar (August 2001). "Tudeh Factionalism and the 1953 Coup in Iran". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 33 (3): 363–82. doi:10.1017/S0020743801003026. JSTOR 259456.
  3. Hammed, Shahidian (May 1994). "The Iranian Left and the "Woman Question" in the Revolution of 1978-79". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 26 (2): 223–47. doi:10.1017/S0020743800060220. JSTOR 164734.
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