Author: Janet Ruhe-Schoen
Publisher: Bahai Publishing
ISBN: 9781931847841
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Drawing on extensive research and steeped in the culture of daily life in nineteenth-century Persia, this is the definitive account of the life of Tahiriha renowned poetess and one of the leading feminists of her time. She spent her life denouncing the second-class status of women, and was eventually martyred for her outspokenness and courage in the face of the male governing establishment in Persia.