Temporary marriage in Iran : gender and body politics in modern Iranian film and literature / Claudia Yaghoobi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yaghoobi, Claudia, 1974- author.

Series:

The global Middle East ; 12.

The global Middle East ; 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Temporary marriage in literature.

Persian fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Persian fiction.

Temporary marriage in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Iran--History and criticism.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 298 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Summary:

Proposing a methodology that brings feminist theories of embodiment to bear on the Iranian literary and cinematic tradition, this study examines temporary marriage in Iran, not just as an institution but also as a set of practices, identities and meanings that have transformed over the course of the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. Based on analysis of novels and short stories from the Pahlavi era, and cinematic works produced after the Islamic Revolution, Claudia Yaghoobi looks at the representation of the sigheh women, or those who entered into temporary marriages. Each work reflects the manner in which the practice of sigheh impacts women by calling into question how sexuality works as a form of political analysis and power, revealing how a sigheh woman's sexual bodily autonomy is used as ammunition against what governments deem inappropriate gendered expression. While focusing mainly on modern Iranian cultural productions, Yaghoobi moves beyond the literary and cinematic realms to offer an in-depth examination of this controversial social institution which has been the subject of disdain for many Iranian feminists and captured the imagination of many Western observers.

Contents:

General overview. Introduction: Body Politics and Body

Sigheh Marriages in Modern Iran

Representation of Sigheh/Sex Work in the Literature of Pahlavi Era. Gendered Violence in Moshfeq-e Kazemi's Tehran-e Makhufe

The Volatile Sigheh/Sex Workers' Bodies in Jamalzadeh's Ma'sumeh Shirazi

Colonized Bodies in Al-e Ahmad's Jashne Farkhonde

The Grotesque Sigheh/Sex Workers' Bodies in Golestan's Safar-e 'Esmat

Bodily Inscriptions in Chubak's Sang-e Sabur

The Islamic Republic and Sigheh in [the] Film Industry

Whose Body Matters in Afkhami's Showkaran

Embodiment, Power, and Politics in Farahbakhsh's Zendegi-ye Khosusiye

Reclaiming the Female Body via Writing.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Jan 2020).

ISBN:

1-108-84847-8

1-108-85762-0

1-108-76894-6