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Hadipour Moradi M, Nari Ghomi M, Rahravi Poodeh S, Ghasemi Sichani M. (2025). The Evolution of the Feminine Nature of the Kitchen Space During the Transition to Modernity in the Traditional Houses of Khorramabad. JRIA. 13(3), doi:10.61882/jria.13.3.5
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The Evolution of the Feminine Nature of the Kitchen Space During the Transition to Modernity in the Traditional Houses of Khorramabad
Mozhgan Hadipour Moradi *1 , Masoud Nari Ghomi2 , Sanaz Rahravi Poodeh3 , Mariam Ghasemi Sichani3
1- Department of Architecture.Institute of Society and Media, ISF. C., Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, iran.
2- Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Technical and Vocational University (TVU), Tehran, Iran.
3- Department of Architecture.Institute of Society and Media, ISF. C.,Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, iran.
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With the social changes resulting from the "period of transition" and "modernization" in Iran, the "kitchen" was also affected by these changes. The kitchen has always been referred to as a feminine space. In some contemporary cultural analyses in Iran, citing feminist theories, the kitchen and the kitchen and its location at the end of the yard or basement were interpreted as patriarchy and traditional female servitude, which Reza Shahi's modernization has been considered a beginning for its liberation in the modern era. Lifestyle-based readings in social science research, and especially historical ethnography, have provided an opportunity to review these assumptions arising from the literature of the early modern period. Therefore, the present study, using the method of historical ethnography and relying on documentary sources and data analysis in a descriptive-analytical manner, addresses the transformation of the feminine nature of the kitchen space during the period of transition to modernity in one of the micro-cultural contexts of Iran, namely the traditional houses of Khorramabad. The results show that the social interpretation of the kitchen in the historical houses of Khorramabad cannot be interpreted as the low status of women in the society of that time. The existence of various cooking spaces, including open kitchens, semi-open kitchens, Tejgahs in rooms, and a special place for baking bread in the courtyard, created special boundaries and territories for women. These various spaces were also family-social spaces. At the same time, due to the communal nature between the women of the house and some neighboring women, they changed from a private space to a semi-private space. The authoritarian modernization and the achievements of modernity resulting from Reza Shah's policies, despite some development, health, and educational measures, led to the deprivation of the right to choose, the impairment of family and social security, and as a result, many women of the Lor tribe were confined to their homes and distanced from the social space. The houses built during this period, especially in newly built neighborhoods; More introverted than Qajar houses, the reduction of various cooking spaces and their consolidation in the kitchen space, the reduction of the extent of women's use of the spaces in the house, the change in women's privacy and territories, the reduction of semi-private and collective territories, as well as the reduction of social interactions between neighboring women resulting from the increase in emerging social insecurities and the presence of new cultures in the city and the policy of revealing the veil were other results of modernity and innovation in this region.
Keywords: Feminine nature of the kitchen space, transition to modernity, traditional houses of Khorramabad
     
Type of Study: Research | Subject: Strategic and practical principals in Islamic architecture and urbanism
Received: 2025/02/3 | Accepted: 2025/07/7 | Published: 2025/09/26
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