ISBN:
0520242629
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0520242637
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 363 p)
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ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2005 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards : Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity
DDC:
305.42/0955/09034
Keywords:
Gender identity History
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Women Social conditions 19th century
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Women Social conditions 20th century
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Gender identity ; Iran ; History
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Women ; Iran ; Social conditions ; 19th century
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Women ; Iran ; Social conditions ; 20th century
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Abstract:
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 d
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: BEAUTY, LOVE, AND SEXUALITY; 1. Early Qajar; 2. Nineteenth-Century Transformations; PART II: CULTURAL LABOR OF SEXUALITY AND GENDER; 3. The Eclipse of the (Fe)Male Sun; 4. Vatan, the Beloved; Vatan, the Mother; 5. Women's Veil and Unveil; 6. The Tragedy of Romantic Marriage; 7. Crafting an Educated Wife and Mother; 8. Women or Wives of the Nation?; Epilogue: Feminism and Its Burden of Birth; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Credits; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
