Dressed for Success: Hegemonic Masculinity, Elite Men and Westernisation in Iran, c.1900-40

From the late nineteenth century until the mid-twentieth century, men of an emerging western-educated Iranian elite utilised knowledge, practices and objects originating from western countries to reach and preserve a hegemonic position in their society. This article follows the appropriation of west...

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Elites
Gender roles
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Iran
Knowledge
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Masculinity
Men
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Politics
Sex roles
Social classes
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