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Books by Afsaneh Najmabadi

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  • - Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity
    by Afsaneh Najmabadi
    £24.99

    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 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.

  • - Untold Stories of Love and Marriage in Modern Iran
    by Afsaneh Najmabadi
    £22.49 - 71.99

  • - Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran
    by Afsaneh Najmabadi
    £23.99 - 85.49

    The Islamic Republic of Iran permits, and even partially subsidizes, sex reassignment surgery. Based on historical and ethnographic research, Afsaneh Najmabadi examines what transsexuality means in postrevolutionary Iran.

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