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This article describes the situation of elite women in Iranian society through the lens of the daughter of the shah and the daughter of a nomadic tribe chief. It studies gender and sexuality by building its arguments around these two memoirs.
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These texts have not been studied enough. Bibi Maryam's memoirs are not even completely translated into English. This paper translated some parts, in addition, employed some gender theories to analyze them.
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This page is a summary of: Expressing Selves: A Comparative Study of the Memoirs of Tāj al-Salṭana and Bībī Maryam Bakhtiyārī, International Journal of Persian Literature, January 2019, The Pennsylvania State University Press,
DOI: 10.5325/intejperslite.4.0037.
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