Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards
by Afsaneh Najmabadi
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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 show more conceptions of beauty, love, homeland, marriage, education, and citizenship. She concludes with a provocative discussion of Iranian feminism and its role in that country's current culture wars. In addition to providing an important new perspective on Iranian history, Najmabadi skillfully demonstrates how using gender as an analytic category can provide insight into structures of hierarchy and power and thus into the organization of politics and social life. show lessTags
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Afsaneh Najmabadi is the Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. She is the author of Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity and The Story of the Daughters of Quchan: Gender and National Memory in Iranian History.
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- Canonical title
- Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards
- Original publication date
- 2005
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies, Anthropology, History, General Nonfiction, Science & Nature
- DDC/MDS
- 305.42 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity Women Social role and status of women
- LCC
- HQ1735.2 .N35 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women Women. Feminism
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 6
- ASINs
- 1
