Janet Afary

Sexual Politics in Modern Iran (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Janet Afary is a native of Iran and a leading historian. Her work focuses on gender and sexuality and draws on her experience of growing up in Iran and her involvement with Iranian women of different ages and social strata. These observations, and a wealth of historical documents, form the kernel of this book, which charts the history of the nation's sexual revolution from the nineteenth century to today. What comes across is the extraordinary resilience of the Iranian people, who have drawn on a rich social and cultural heritage to defy the repression and hardship of the Islamist state and its predecessors. It is this resilience, the author concludes, which forms the basis of a sexual revolution taking place in Iran today, one that is promoting reforms in marriage and family laws, and demanding more egalitarian gender and sexual relations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781107386655
• Artikelnr.: 52958162

Autorenporträt

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.