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Liminalities of gender and sexuality in nineteenth-century Iranian photography : desirous bodies / Staci Gem Scheiwiller.

Van Pelt Library TR107 .S34 2017
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Scheiwiller, Staci Gem.
Series:
Routledge history of photography
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Photography--Iran--History--19th century.
Photography.
Photography, Erotic--History--19th century.
Photography, Erotic.
Sex customs.
History.
Manners and customs.
Iran--History--Qajar dynasty, 1794-1925.
Iran.
Iran--Social life and customs--19th century.
Sex customs--Iran--History--19th century.
Qajar Dynasty (Iran).
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:
xix, 219 pages ; 26 cm.
Place of Publication:
New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.
Contents:
Introduction : locations of desire
A language of its own : depictions of women in Iranian art before and shortly after the arrival of photography
Corporeal politics : constructions of gender and power in the royal Nasiri photograph albums and the photography of the Constitutional Revolution (1905-11)
Collecting women
The erotic spaces of Qajar photography
For the male gaze : depictions of masculinity and sexuality
Enslaved bodies of desire : photographs of black African slaves
Conclusion : the inevitable witness.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781138201293
1138201294
OCLC:
952195946

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