Document Type : Research Paper

Author

• Somayeh Shafiee

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Abstract

In the light of the constitutionalist discourse, women activists entered the field in line with aspiration of constitutionalism and challenged the dominant gender order by entering the public sphere. The present study focuses on the women mobilization for fundraising and seeks to clarify its dimensions through the method of documentary analysis.
Findings are presented and analyzed in five categories: donation spending, motivations, mechanisms, participants' characteristics, and women's collective action strategies. The purpose of collecting donations was to help the families of the Constitutional warrior also the accumulation of initial input to establish the National Bank. All was based on the patriotic motives of women for national independence. This feminine collective also action reflects the formulation of the identity politics of activists who suffered from discriminatory relations and gender stereotypes and sought opportunities for social participation in mobilization. Being unemployed and lack income, women used tactics such as donating gifts, selling personal property, and allocating dowry to provide resources for mobilization. Women's participation from different socio-economic backgrounds has given a supra-class dimension to mobilization. Avoiding consumerism, calling for solidarity, and financing through alternative means such as charity have been the main strategies of the actors encountering available resources, constraints, and barriers.

Keywords

• Nationalism
• women's movement
• agency
• strategy
• social movement

Main Subjects

• Women Studies