| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 363 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
"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."--Book cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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American Historical Association Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, 2005 |
| SUBJECT |
Kadjaren. swd |
| Subject |
Women -- Iran -- Social conditions -- 19th century
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Women -- Iran -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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Gender identity -- Iran -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Gender identity
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Women -- Social conditions
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Frau
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Vrouwen.
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Sekseverschillen.
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Identiteit.
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Iran
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Iran
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Iran.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780520931381 |
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0520931386 |
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1423714881 |
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9781423714880 |
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1598755501 |
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9781598755503 |
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1282357565 |
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9781282357563 |
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