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Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity

By Afsaneh Najmabadi

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2005
ISBN
0520242629, 9781423714880, 9780520242623, 0520242637, 9780520242630
Open Library ID
OL22620110M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3091479 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
378\378
Topic
History
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-04-20 14:05:05
Исторические дисциплины;История стран Азии и Африк

Description

Drawing from a rich array of visual and literary material from nineteenth-century Iran, this groundbreaking book rereads and rewrites the history of Iranian modernity through the lens of gender and sexuality. Peeling away notions of a rigid pre-modern Islamic gender system, Afsaneh Najmabadi provides a compelling demonstration of the centrality of gender and sexuality to the shaping of modern culture and politics in Iran and of how changes in ideas about gender and sexuality affected conceptions of beauty, love, homeland, marriage, education, and citizenship. She concludes with a provocative discussion of Iranian feminism and its role in that country's current culture wars. In addition to providing an important new perspective on Iranian history, Najmabadi skillfully demonstrates how using gender as an analytic category can provide insight into structures of hierarchy and power and thus into the organization of politics and social life.

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