Sexual Politics in Modern Iran

Name: Sexual Politics in Modern Iran
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ISBN: 9780521727082

ISBN-10: 0521727081

ISBN-13: 9780521727082

Edition: 2009

Authors: Janet Afary

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Janet Afary is a native of Iran and a leading historian. Her work focuses on gender and sexuality and draws on her experience of growing up in Iran and her involvement with Iranian women of different ages and social strata. These observations, and a wealth of historical documents, form the kernel of this book, which charts the history of the nation's sexual revolution from the nineteenth century to today. What comes across is the extraordinary resilience of the Iranian people, who have drawn on a rich social and cultural heritage to defy the repression and hardship of the Islamist state and its predecessors. It is this resilience, the author concludes, which forms the basis of a sexual…

Book details

List price: $42.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/9/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 444
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.760
Language: English



List of illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Premodern practices



Formal marriage



Slave concubinage, temporary marriage, and harem wives



Class, status-defined homosexuality, and rituals of courtship



Toward a Westernized modernity



On the road to an ethos of monogamous, heterosexual marriage



Redefining purity, unveiling bodies, and shifting desires



Imperialist politics, romantic love, and the impasse over women's suffrage



Suffrage, marriage reforms, and the threat of female sexuality



The rise of leftist guerrilla organizations and Islamist movements



Forging an Islamist modernity and beyond



The Islamic Revolution, its sexual economy, and the Left



Islamist women and the emergence of Islamic feminism



Birth control, female sexual awakening, and the gay lifestyle


Conclusion: Toward a new Muslim-Iranian sexuality for the twenty-first century


Glossary


Bibliography


Index