Badr ol-Moluk Bamdad
Badr ol-Moluk Bamdad was born in Tehran in 1905. She received her primary education at home since at the time there were no public schools for girls. She attended the Women’s Teacher Training College in 1918 where she later assumed the chair of the domestic science. From the age of fourteen she contributed articles to various periodicals and newspapers and later she authored books. In 1935 she was among the first group of women who entered the University of Tehran where she obtained a bachelor of education in 1940. In 1948 she received a Master of Arts degree from Columbia University. Upon her return to Iran she continued her work as a pioneering educator and she founded the Women’s League of Supporters of the Declaration of Human Rights. She served as the president of the Civil Rights Committee of the High Council of Iranian women and she remained a passionate supporter of women’s rights.
Introduction by Nasrin Rahimieh
Translator’s Preface
A Note on the Authoress
Chapter I.
Equality of Rights-- A Long-Standing Human Aspiration
Chapter II.
Iranian Women in Bygone Days
Chapter III.
The Constitutional Revolution (1906-1911) and Women’s Awakening
Chapter IV.
After the First World War
Chapter V.
The Daybreak
Chapter VI.
Troubled Times
Chapter VII.
The Winning of Equal Rights
Appendices:
A. Some Poems
B. Publications edited by women (1909-1969)