Women moving from marginalization to mainstream (A study on effective socio-cultural backdrops on painter women’s activities in Pahlavi era, Iran)

Abstract

Several factors influenced on the presence of women in the Pahlavi era. In the new structures after the constitutionalism and along with modernism of Pahlavi, court became to the government and political figures changed to the people. In this era, the role of women in sexual approach, their changed from a class-in-itself to class-for-itself. The outgrowth of social backdrops caused that we can see a more active presence of women in second Pahlavi era compare to past periods in painting; accordingly the history of Tehran art galleries from 1949 until 1979 B.C and their activities corroborated this. Study of social backdrops that moved these women from marginalization to mainstream is the purpose of this article and it’s an attempt to answer the question what social backdrops influenced on increasing the presence of painter women in Pahlavi era? In this study, collecting of contents is based on libraries and field research and written on comparative, descriptive and analytic method and cultural and social backdrops of women painter of Pahlavi era. We can understand that the presence of supporter man in family, learning, social class, urban life, spreading culture in public trough medias and cultural institute, legal and natural presence of queen, the supports of government and cultural politics, social movements of women and change of women role in 20 century, had a effective role in rise of painter women of second Pahlavi era.

Keywords

• learning and cultural politics
• painter women
• urban life
• social class
• socio-cultural backdrops