Ettelaat-e Banuvan explained

Ettelā'āt-e Bānuvān (Persian: اطلاعات بانوان|italic=yes) or Banovan, was one of the early women's magazines published in Tehran, Iran. 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]

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.

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.

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Notes and References

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