Women and modernity's thought (case study the Naser Al Din Shah diaries)

During the Qajar era, extensive measures were taken to compensate for the undeveloped Iranian of western civilization. Firstly, the military reforms were done and then the plan of bureaucracy’s improvement and government discipline was reformed. The third stage was social reform that took place during the Naseri era. This reforms, like previous programs needed to be modified from up to down society, so that social reformers prepared a plan for the Shah’s travels to the west. Although, These reforms should have led to a fundamental change in the heart of society and the way of life of people, both men and women, in real what happened was that women were ignored in this process. The research have tried with a descriptive-analytic method through a study of diary’s Nasser Al Din Shah the position of women in program’s modernity that’s why they were eliminated from this project. The research claim that some factors of patriarchal custom, religious (The Sharia that supports this custom), the traditional mentality of women and finally the Shah’s upbringing and his belief led to the removal of women from this project.