Ever Seen a Princess with a Moustache!?

Exploring into the fascinating history of Princess Esmat ed-Dowleh 👑✨ Don't let viral clickbait memes obscure her remarkable story OR what it says about gender norms...

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“Princess Qajar” and the Problem with Junk History Memes

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Najmabadi, Afsaneh. Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity, 2005.
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Ismat al-Dawlah daughter of Nasir al-Din Shah, wife of Dust Muhammad Khan Muʻayyir al-Mamlik
http://www.qajarwomen.org/en/items/12...

Lovers embracing
Najmabadi, Afsaneh. Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity, 2005.

King Louis XIV
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_X...

Genji monogatari emaki
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...