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Sexual politics in modern iran / Janet Afary.
Van Pelt Library HQ1735.2 .A67 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Afary, Janet.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Iran--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Women--Sexual behavior.
- Iran.
- Social conditions.
- Women--Sexual behavior--Iran.
- Feminism--Iran.
- Feminism.
- Women's rights--Iran.
- Women's rights.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 423 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Premodern practices 17
- 1 Formal marriage 19
- 2 Slave concubinage, temporary marriage, and harem wives 50
- 3 Class, status-defined homosexuality, and rituals of courtship 79
- Part 2 Toward a Westernized modernity 109
- 4 On the road to an ethos of monogamous, heterosexual marriage 111
- 5 Redefining purity, unveiling bodies, and shifting desires 142
- 6 Imperialist politics, romantic love, and the impasse over women's suffrage 174
- 7 Suffrage, marriage reforms, and the threat of female sexuality 198
- 8 The rise of leftist guerrilla organizations and Islamist movements 234
- Part 3 Forging an Islamist modernity and beyond 263
- 9 The Islamic Revolution, its sexual economy, and the Left 265
- 10 Islamist women and the emergence of Islamic feminism 292
- 11 Birth control, female sexual awakening, and the gay lifestyle 323.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 378-410) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780521898461
- 0521898463
- 9780521727082
- 0521727081
- OCLC:
- 309835093
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