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Article: The Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1906-1911: Grassroots Democracy, Social Democracy, and the Origin of Feminism.(Review)
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- The Historian
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- January 1, 1999
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The Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1906-1911: Grassroots Democracy, Social Democracy, and the Origin of Feminism. By Janet Mary. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. Pp. xxi, 448. $32.00.)
In 12 detailed chapters, the author of this study attempts to recount the history of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution (1906-1911) in the light of new concerns about race, gender, class, and the world capitalist system. The traditional historiography of this revolution, according to the author, has relied on single-factor analysis or one-dimensional explanations. Mary attempts, for the first time, to correct for this by taking into account the "multiclass, ...