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Professing Selves : Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran / Afsaneh Najmabadi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Najmabadi, Afsaneh, 1946- author.
- Series:
- Experimental Futures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Transness--Iran.
- Transness.
- Gender transition--Iran.
- Gender transition.
- Gender identity--Iran.
- Gender identity.
- Transgenderism--Iran.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 418 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2014
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 01. Entering the Scene; 02. "Before" Transsexuality; 03. Murderous Passions, Deviant Insanities; 04. "Around" 1979: Gay Tehran?; 05. Verdicts of Science, Rulings of Faith; 06. Changing the Terms: Playing "Snakes and Ladders" with the State; 07. Living Patterns, Narrative Styles; 08. Professing Selves: Sexual/Gender Proficiencies; Glossary of Persian Terms and Acronyms; Notes; Works Cited; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780822377290
- 0822377292
- OCLC:
- 1224278655
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