Jamiat Nesvan Vatankhah
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Jamiat Nesvan Vatankhah Or Patriotic Women's League of Iran Or Society of Patriotic Women (1922–1933), was one the most active and enthusiastic women's rights societies in Iran's history that formed Women's rights movement in Iran
Women's rights movement in Iran
The Iranian women's movement is based on the Iranian women's social movement for women's rights. This movement first emerged some time after the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1906...

 after Constitutional revolution
Iranian Constitutional Revolution
The Persian Constitutional Revolution or Iranian Constitutional Revolution took place between 1905 and 1907...

. The Society was set up at 1922 by Mohtaram Eskandari
Mohtaram Eskandari
Mohtaram Eskandari was an Iranian intellectual and one of the pioneering figures in Iranian women's movement. She was the first leader of feminist Nesvan e vatankhah association and publisher of its journal for women....

 (who was disappointed with the results of the revolution for women), Noor-ol-Hoda Mangeneh
Noor-ol-Hoda Mangeneh
Noor-ol-Hoda Mangeneh was a Persian intellectual and one of the pioneering figures in the Women's rights movement in Iran. She was born in Tehran....

, Mastoureh Afshar and other women's rights activists.

Their objectives were "To emphasise continuing respect for the laws and rituals of Islam; to promote the education and moral upbringing of girls; to encourage national industries; to spread literacy among adult women; to provide care for orphaned girls; to set up hospitals for poor women; to organise co-operatives as a means of developing national industries; and to give material and moral support to the defenders of the country in the event of war."
The league had lectures and waged campaigns. The league also published Nosvan Vatankhah [=Patriotic women] journal from 1922, which was an important women's journal.
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