This book charts the history of Iran's sexual revolution from the nineteenth century to today. The resilience of the Iranian people forms the basis of this sexual revolution, one that is promoting reforms in marriage and family laws, and demanding more egalitarian gender and sexual relations.
This book charts the history of Iran's sexual revolution from the nineteenth century to today. The resilience of the Iranian people forms the basis of this sexual revolution, one that is promoting reforms in marriage and family laws, and demanding more egalitarian gender and sexual relations.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Janet Afary is Professor of History and Women's Studies in the Department of History at Purdue University. Her previous publications include The Iranian Constitutional Revolution: Grassroots Democracy, Social Democracy, and the Origins of Feminism (1996) and, with Kevin Anderson, the award-winning Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism (2005).
Inhaltsangabe
Part I. Pre-modern Practices: 1. Formal marriage; 2. Slave concubinage, temporary marriage, and harem wives; 3. Class, status-defined homosexuality, and rituals of courtship; Part II. Toward a Westernized Modernity: 4. On the road to an ethos of monogamous, heterosexual marriage; 5. Redefining purity, unveiling bodies, shifting desires; 6. Imperialist politics, romantic love, and the impasse over women's suffrage; 7. Suffrage, marriage reforms, and the threat of female sexuality; 8. The rise of leftist guerrilla organizations and Islamism; Part III. Forging an Islamist Modernity and Beyond: 9. The Islamic revolution, its sexual economy, and the Left; 10. Islamist women and the emergence of Islamic feminism; 11. Birth control, female sexual awakening, and the gay lifestyle; Conclusion: toward a new Muslim-Iranian sexuality for the twenty-first century.
Part I. Pre-modern Practices: 1. Formal marriage; 2. Slave concubinage, temporary marriage, and harem wives; 3. Class, status-defined homosexuality, and rituals of courtship; Part II. Toward a Westernized Modernity: 4. On the road to an ethos of monogamous, heterosexual marriage; 5. Redefining purity, unveiling bodies, shifting desires; 6. Imperialist politics, romantic love, and the impasse over women's suffrage; 7. Suffrage, marriage reforms, and the threat of female sexuality; 8. The rise of leftist guerrilla organizations and Islamism; Part III. Forging an Islamist Modernity and Beyond: 9. The Islamic revolution, its sexual economy, and the Left; 10. Islamist women and the emergence of Islamic feminism; 11. Birth control, female sexual awakening, and the gay lifestyle; Conclusion: toward a new Muslim-Iranian sexuality for the twenty-first century.
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'... the work is seminal and extraordinary. Janet Afary has raised a high bar on the many, many issues surrounding the politics of gender and sexuality in Iran.' Thomas Ricks
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