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Modernity, sexuality, and ideology in Iran : the life and legacy of a popular female artist / Kamran Talattof.
Van Pelt Library PK6561.S274 Z73 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Talattof, Kamran.
- Series:
- Modern intellectual and political history of the Middle East
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Saʻīdī, Kubrā.
- Women authors, Iranian--Biography.
- Women authors, Iranian.
- Women artists--Iran--Biography.
- Women artists.
- Women dancers--Iran--Biography.
- Women dancers.
- Ideology.
- History.
- Social change.
- Sex--Social aspects.
- Women in popular culture.
- Social conditions.
- Intellectual life.
- Iran--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Iran.
- Iran--Social conditions--20th century.
- Women in popular culture--Iran--History--20th century.
- Sex--Social aspects--Iran--History--20th century.
- Sex.
- Social change--Iran--History--20th century.
- Ideology--Iran--History--20th century.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2011.
- Summary:
- Kobra Saidi, better known by her stage name Shahrzad, was an Iranian actress, filmmaker, dancer, and poet whose successful career was cut short by the 1979 Iranian Revolution, which led to her arrest for protesting against the revolutionary regime's policies towards women and eventual descent into homelessness. Talattof (Persian and Iranian studies, U. of Arizona) explores the life and work of Shahrzad as a window into "the struggle between modernity and religious fundamentalism in Iran," with a focus on competing discourses of sex and sexuality in popular culture and the popular arts. He finds that the circumstances women faced during and after the revolution were rooted in cultural and discursive developments of the 1970s wherein there was a failure to articulate a truly modern understanding of sexuality. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Academic writing and writing about lives : an introduction
- Modernity, sexuality, and popular culture : Iran's social agony
- Iranian women and public space in the seventies : Shahrzad, a woman of her time
- Seduction, sin, and salvation : spurious sexuality in dance and film
- Shahrzad as a writer : the question of literary modernity
- Social change in Iran and the transforming lives of women artists
- Ideology, sexuality, and sexual agency : an afterword.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780815632245
- 081563224X
- OCLC:
- 647671121
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