Professing Selves Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran

Name: Professing Selves Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran
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ISBN: 9780822355571

ISBN-10: 0822355574

ISBN-13: 9780822355571

Edition: 2013

Authors: Afsaneh Najmabadi

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Since the mid-1980s, the Islamic Republic of Iran has permitted, and partially subsidized, sex reassignment surgery. In Professing Selves, Afsaneh Najmabadi explores the meaning of transsexuality in contemporary Iran. Combining historical and ethnographic research, she describes how, in the postrevolutionary era, the domains of law, psychology and psychiatry, Islamic jurisprudence, and biomedicine became invested in distinguishing between the acceptable "true" transsexual and other categories of identification, notably the "true" homosexual, an unacceptable category of existence in Iran. Najmabadi argues that this collaboration among medical authorities, specialized clerics, and state…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 12/16/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

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