Women with mustaches and men without beards gender and sexual anxieties of Iranian modernity

"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 p...

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1. Verfasser: Najmabadi, Afsaneh 1946- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley [u.a.] University of California Press 2005
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  • Beauty, love, and sexuality: early Qajar
  • Beauty, love, and sexuality: nineteenth-century transformations
  • The eclipse of the (fe)male sun
  • Vatan, the beloved: Vatan, the mother
  • Women's veil and unveil
  • The tragedy of romantic marriage
  • Crafting an educated wife and mother
  • Women or wives of the nation?
  • Epilogue: feminism and its burden of birth.