Afsaneh Najmabadi

Broschiertes Buch

Professing Selves

Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Afsaneh Najmabadi is the Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. She is the author of Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity and The Story of the Daughters of Quchan: Gender and National Memory in Iranian History. She is a coeditor (with Kathryn Babayan) of Islamicate Sexualities: Translations across Temporal Geographies of Desire.

Produktdetails

• Experimental Futures
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 580g
• ISBN-13: 9780822355571
• ISBN-10: 0822355574
• Artikelnr.: 37721108