Staci Gem Scheiwiller

Liminalities of Gender and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Iranian Photography

Desirous Bodies

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines Qajar Iran (1785-1925) as an ocular-centered society founded on what was seen and unseen, in the context of increasing modernization and global contact during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 178mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9781138201293
• ISBN-10: 1138201294
• Artikelnr.: 47271988

Autorenporträt

Staci Gem Scheiwiller is Assistant Professor of Modern Art History at California State University, Stanislaus. Her publications include a co-edited volume with Markus Ritter entitled The Indigenous Lens: Early Photography in the Near and Middle East (2017) and the edited volume Performing the Iranian State: Visual Culture and Representations of Iranian Identity (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Locations of Desire
2. A Language of Its Own: Depictions of Women in Iranian Art Before and
Shortly After the Arrival of Photography
3. Corporeal Politics: Constructions of Gender and Power in the Royal
Nasiri Photograph Albums and the Photography of the Constitutional
Revolution (1905-11)
4. Collecting Women
5. The Erotic Spaces of Qajar Photography
6. For the Male Gaze: Depictions of Masculinity and Sexuality
7. Enslaved Bodies of Desire: Photographs of Black African Slaves
8. Conclusion: The Inevitable Witness