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Name
  
Zandokht Shirazi

Role
  
Poet

Died
  
1953


Zandokht Shirazi (1909–1953) (Persian:زندخت / زنددخت شیرازی) was a prominent Iranian feminist, poet and school teacher, who was an activist from an early age. Her birthname was Fakhrolmoluk and she was born in a Shiraz's aristocracy families. She established Majma' e Enghelabi e Nesvan (Revolutionary society of women) in Shiraz in 1927, at the age of 18, and published Dokhtran Iran (Daughters of Iran) newspaper on women's issues from 1931 initially in Shiraz. After a few years, she moved to Tehran due to the unsuitable situations in Shiraz, and tried publishing Iranian Duaghters' Publication. Her poems have radical feminist perspectives.

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