The Story of the Daughters of Quchan

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About “The Story of the Daughters of Quchan”

The Story of the Daughters of Quchan: Gender and National Memory in Iranian History is a 1998 political history book by Afsaneh Najmabadi. It examines a 1905 instance of human trafficking in Iran, focusing on the titular Daughters of Quchan, a group of about 250 girls from the Quchan district who were kidnapped and sold by the local government in place of a tax. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)

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Published
1998

Some summaries adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.