Claudia Yaghoobi

Temporary Marriage in Iran

Gender and Body Politics in Modern Iranian Film and Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

An examination of temporary marriage, or sigheh, in Iran through the representation of women within modern novels, short stories and cinema.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781108488105
• ISBN-10: 1108488102
• Artikelnr.: 58597993

Autorenporträt

Claudia Yaghoobi is Roshan Institute Assistant Professor in Persian Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the author of Subjectivity in 'Attar, Persian Sufism, and European Mysticism (2017), co-editor of Sex and Marriage in the Medieval Islamicate World: Women, Family, and Love (with Aisha Musa, forthcoming), co-editor of the book series, Sex, Marriage and Culture in the Middle East, and winner of the Hammed Shahidian Critical Feminist prize, awarded by the Iranian Women's Studies Foundation in 2014.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: sexpionage and the female body
Part I. General Overview: Introduction: body politics and sigheh marriages
1. Sigheh marriages in modern Iran
Part II. Representation of Sigheh/Sex Work in the Literature of Pahlavi Era: 2. Gendered violence in Moshfeq-e Kazemi's Tehran-e Makhuf
3. The volatile sigheh/sex workers' bodies in Jamalzadeh's Ma'sumeh Shirazi
4. Colonized bodies in Al-e Ahmad's 'Jashn-e Farkhonde'
5. The grotesque sigheh/sex workers' bodies in Golestan's 'Safar-e 'Esmat'
6. Bodily inscriptions in Chubak's Sang-e Sabur
Part III. The Islamic Republic and Sigheh in Film Industry: 7. Whose body matters in Afkhami's Showkaran
8. Embodiment, power, and politics in Farahbakhsh's Zendegi-ye Khosusi
Reclaiming the female body via writing.