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

Name: Women with Mustaches and Men Without Beards Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity
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ISBN: 9780520242630

ISBN-10: 0520242637

ISBN-13: 9780520242630

Edition: 2005

Authors: Afsaneh Najmabadi

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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…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 4/25/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 366
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.98" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.386

Afsaneh Najmabadi is Professor of History and Womenï¿½e(tm)s Studies, Harvard University.




Beauty, love, and sexuality



Early Qajar



Nineteenth-century transformations



Cultural labor of sexuality and gender



The eclipse of the (fe)male sun



Vatan, the beloved; Vatan, the mother



Women's veil and unveil



The tragedy of romantic marriage



Crafting an educated wife and mother



Women or wives of the nation?


Epilogue : feminism and its burden of birth