Ettelaat-e Banuvan

Ettelā'āt-e Bānuvān (Persian: اطلاعات بانوان) or Banovan was one of the early women's magazines published in Tehran. The magazine was established by Ettelaat Publishing Group in 1957.[1][2] The first issue of the magazine which was published on a weekly basis appeared in April 1957.[3]

Cover of an issue of the Ettelā'āt-e Bānuvān weekly (22 August 1973)

Ettelā'āt-e Bānuvān covered news on celebrities, the royal family, health, beauty, and other topics related to women.[1] It also featured articles on home decoration with a special reference to modern furnitures and color compositions.[4] The first chief editor of Ettelā'āt-e Bānuvān and one of its founders was Iraj Mosta'an, who was succeeded by Pari Abasalti in 1968.[3]

The magazine was closed in 1979, but was reopened in 1981.[1] Ettelā'āt-e Bānuvān continued until 1980, and relaunched the following year under the title Rah-e Zaynab, and the editorship of Zahra Rahnavard.[3]

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References
  1. Gholam Khiabany (2009). Iranian Media: The Paradox of Modernity. Routledge. p. 187. ISBN 978-1-135-89490-0.
  2. Gholam Khiabany; Annabelle Sreberny (2004). "The Women's Press in Contemporary Iran: Engendering the Public Sphere". In Naomi Sakr (ed.). Women and Media in the Middle East Power through Self-Expression. London: I.B.Tauris. p. 17. doi:10.5040/9780755604838.ch-002.
  3. Liora Hendelman-Baavur (2019). Creating the Modern Iranian Woman. Popular Culture between Two Revolutions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 25, 53, 300. doi:10.1017/9781108627993. ISBN 9781108627993.
  4. Maryam Golabi (2021). "Visual Representation of the Modern Domestic Space in Iranian Printed Media (1925-1979)". Yedi. 25: 113. doi:10.17484/yedi.784967.
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