سودابه هادیزاده

The Constitutional Revolution is considered a turning point in the contemporary history of Iran, in which women played a significant role in its formation. Accordingly, in this study, we selected two travelogues by Khavar Bibi Shadloo and Sakineh Soltan Vaqar al-Dawlah, which relate to the years leading up to the Constitutional Revolution, and the memoirs of Khadija Afzal Vaziri, which contain signs of the struggle of Iranian women after the Constitutional Revolution until the first Pahlavi Dynasty, for examination with a cultural semiotic approach. This approach, which reveals the process of meaning formation and distinguishing cultural values ??and norms, provides the way in which semiotic spheres interact and the possibility of examining cultural events. The selected texts were analyzed with the help of cultural semiotic components and in the form of a semiotic sphere; the world of order and chaos, dual confrontations, self and other, the type of interaction and types of creoleization in the two periods before and after the Constitutional Revolution. Considering the umlaut of each woman and comparing their worldviews, the process of changing the position of Iranian women in the public sphere during the Qajar era and the early Pahlavi era was explained. The efforts of freedom-loving women after the Constitutional Revolution to achieve a collective identity and change unequal gender and social laws led to the formation of a kind of dialogue between the center and the periphery of the public sphere, which resulted in cultural changes and the Dominance of the periphery over the center.