Campaign for Resource Mobilization by Women in the Constitutional Movement to Establish the Meli Bank

This article examines the women’s campaign in this mobilization, concentrating on the popular fundraising campaign to establish the Meli Bank following the Constitutional Revolution. Regarding the historical sociology approach, the research is founded on the resource mobilization theory of Charles Tilly.Therefore, in the first stage, the concepts and variables of Tilly’s theory are introduced, and then they are defined with reference to historical texts, such as books, the press, and women’s texts and writings. Methodologically, the study employs document analysis to provide concrete examples of the women’s fundraising campaign for the establishment of Bank Meli.The interest of women’sorganizations in the form of national independence motivations that confronts the politics of foreign colonial states is explained. Women’s associations, meetings, and the mobilization of utilitarian ornormative resources are discussed. The research concludes with an explanation of the opportunities and threats, as well as the form of mobilization.The collection of reliable and unprecedented data on women’s agency is one of the research’s innovations. The women’s campaign to establish Bank Meli demonstrates their acute awareness of thecontemporarysociopolitical climate, their capacity to mobilize, and their agency in collective actions, which is a recurring theme in modern Iranian history.