What is Women's rights movement in Iran?
{{Orphan|date=May 2009}} [[Image:Jam'iat e nesvan e vatan-khah01.jpg|thumb|A women's right association in Tehran (1923-1933)]] The '''Iranian women's movement''', also called the ''Persian women's movement'', involves the [[Iranian women]]'s [[social movement]] for [[women's rights]]. The movement [[wikt:emerge|emerged]] after the [[Iranian Constitutional Revolution]]. Semi secret associations took place and organized women's rights demonstrations and protests.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2010/04/iranian-women-and-the-struggle-for-democracy-i-the-pre-revolution-era.html | title=Iranian Women and the Struggle for Democracy I | website=[[PBS]] }}</ref> It lasted until [[1910]], when the first Women [[Journal]] was published by [[women]], to [[1933]], when which the last women’s [[Voluntary association|association]] was dissolved by the [[Reza Shah]]’s [[government]]. The women’s movement emerged again after the [[Iranian Revolution]] ([[1979]]).<ref>Sanasarian, Eliz. ''The Women's Rights Movements in Iran'', Praeger, New York: [[1982]], {{ISBN|0-03-059632-7}}.</ref><ref>Afary, Janet. ''The Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1906 - 1911'', Columbia University Press, [[1996]].</ref> In some villages the parents must show proof of their daughters virginity on the wedding night.<ref>{{cite magazine | url=http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,916725,00.html | title=World: The Unfinished Revolution | magazine=Time | date=2 April 1979 }}</ref> == Activists == [[File:Iranian Women Parliamentarians 1970s.jpg|thumb|200px|Women Parliamentarians of Iran in mid 1970s]] *[[Bibi Khanoom Astarabadi]] (1859–1921) *[[Touba Azmoudeh]] (1878-1936) *[[Sediqeh Dowlatabadi]] (1882-1962) *[[Mohtaram Eskandari]] (1895–1924) *[[Roshank No'doost]] (1899-?) *[[Afaq Parsa]] (1899-?) *[[Fakhr ozma Arghoun]] (1899-1966) *[[Noor-ol-Hoda Mangeneh]] (1902-?) *[[Zandokht Shirazi]] (1909-1953) *[[Maryam Amid]] ([[Mariam Mozayen-ol Sadat]]) (?-1919) *[[Shahnaz Azad]] (1901-1961) *[[