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Women from the Archives: Sattareh Farman-Farmaian Discusses her Memoirs.
Social Worker Sattareh Farman Farmaian. She's the daughter of an Iranian prince of a fallen dynasty. She spent her childhood in a harem in Persia in the 20s and 30s. She in her 70's, and has spent a life time challenging Iran's conventions. She became the first Persian to study at the University of Southern California where she earned an advanced degree in social work. Returning to Iran she founded the Tehran School of Social Work. After the collapse of the Shah's regime she was arrested as a counter revolutionary and faced possible execution.
Women from the Archives: Pakistani Writer Bapsi Sidhwa.
Pakistani writer Bapsi Sidhwa. Her novel Cracking India, tells the story of the Partition of India through the eyes of an eight-year-old girl named Lenny. Sidhwa has written other novels as well, The Bride, and Ice-Candy-Man, both stories are told through female characters. (REBROADCAST originally aired 10/29/91)
Women from the Archives: Alarming Observations of Adolescent Young Women.
Psychologist Mary Pipher has worked mostly with teenage girls for over ten years.
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