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).
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.
