Claudia Yaghoobi (Chapel Hill University of North Carolina)

Broschiertes Buch

Temporary Marriage in Iran

Beschreibung

Analysing the representation of women in modern novels, short stories and cinema, this study is an examination of the controversial social institution of sigheh or temporary marriage in Iran, not just as an institution but also as a set of practices, identities and meanings that have transformed over the last two centuries.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• The Global Middle East
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9781108738439
• ISBN-10: 1108738435
• Artikelnr.: 63298239