UID:
almahu_9949203652302882
Format:
1 online resource (ix, 244 pages)
ISBN:
9781350050044
,
9781350050037
,
9781350050051
Series Statement:
Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought
Content:
"Gender and sexuality in modern Iran is frequently examined through the prism of nationalist symbols and religious discourse from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In this book, Kristin Soraya Batmanghelichi takes a different approach, by interrogating how normative ideas of women's bodies in state, religious, and public health discourses have resulted in the female body being deemed as immodest and taboo. Through a diverse blend of sources -a popular cultural women's journal, a red-light district, cases studies of temporary marriages, iconic public statues, and an HIV-AIDS advocacy organization in Tehran - this work argues that conceptions of gender and sexuality have been mediated in public discourse and experienced and modified by women themselves over the past thirty years of the Islamic Republic. Expanding upon existing philosophical theory, technological research and scholarship on gender and sexuality in Iran, this book focuses much needed attention on under-studied, marginalized communities, such as widows living with HIV. This work interrogates how bodily technologies are constructed discursively and socially in Iran and the values and perspectives which are incorporated in them"--Abstract.
Note:
Introduction -- 1. Breasts, Hands and Faces: Gazing at Iran's Mediascape -- 2. Red-Lights in Parks: a Social History of Park-E Razi -- 3. Post-Revolutionary 'Prostitution' and its Discontents -- 4. Naked Modesty and the Reformation of Statues in Post-Revolutionary Iran -- 5. HIV/AIDS and the Problem of 'Taboos' Talking -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781350050051
URL:
https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350050051?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
