Umfang:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 363 p)
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ill
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24 cm
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2005 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0520242629
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0520242637
Inhalt:
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
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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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
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780520242630
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards : Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Soziologie
