ISBN:
9781478015154
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9781478017776
Language:
English
Pages:
xviii, 162 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Najmabadi, Afsaneh Familial Undercurrents
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Najmabadi, Afsaneh Familial Undercurrents
DDC:
306.810955/0904
Keywords:
Najmabadi, Afsaneh Family
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Marriage History 20th century
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Families History 20th century
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Families Case studies History 20th century
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Marriage Case studies History 20th century
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HISTORY / Middle East / Iran
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies
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Iran
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Familie
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Hochzeit
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Fallstudie
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Geschichte 1900-2000
Abstract:
Marrying for Love -- Objects: Letters, Wedding Clothes, and Photographs -- Meanings of Marriage: Forming a Family or Providing Sexual Pleasure -- Urban Transformations -- Naming Marriage, Naming Kin.
Abstract:
"Not long after her father died, Afsaneh Najmabadi discovered that her father had a secret second family and that she had a sister she never knew about. In Familial Undercurrents, Najmabadi uncovers her family's complex experiences of polygamous marriage to tell a larger story of the transformations of notions of love, marriage, and family life in mid-twentieth-century Iran. She traces how the idea of "marrying for love" and the desire for companionate, monogamous marriage acquired dominance in Tehran's emerging urban middle-class. Considering the role that late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century romance novels, reformist newspapers, plays, and other literature played in that process, Najmabadi outlines the rituals and objects such as wedding outfits, letter writing, and family portraits that came to characterize the ideal companionate marriage. She reveals how in the course of one generation men's polygamy had evolved from an acceptable open-practice to a taboo best kept secret. At the same time, she chronicles the urban transformations of Tehran and how its architecture and neighborhood social networks both influenced and became emblematic of the myriad forms of modern Iranian family life"--
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 149-154
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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