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by Afsaneh Najmabadi


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Drawing from a rich array of visual and literary material from nineteenth-century Iran, this groundbreaking book rereads and rewrites the history of Iranian modernity through the lens of gender and sexuality. Peeling away notions of a rigid pre-modern Islamic gender system, Afsaneh Najmabadi provides a compelling demonstration of the centrality of gender and sexuality to the shaping of modern culture and politics in Iran and of how changes in ideas about gender and sexuality affected conceptions of beauty, love, homeland, marriage, education, and citizenship. She concludes with a provocative discussion of Iranian feminism and its role in that country's current culture wars. In addition to providing an important new perspective on Iranian history, Najmabadi skillfully demonstrates how using gender as an analytic category can provide insight into structures of hierarchy and power and thus into the organization of politics and social life.

First line

Years ago, in the heat of a polemical exchange with a historian of Qajar Iran (1785-1925), who expressed regret and dismay that doing Qajar women's history was impossible because few historical sources and solid extant records about women of that period existed, I retorted, "But if we use gender analytically, sources about men are also sources about women."

From the rear cover

"This book is groundbreaking, at once highly original, courageous, and moving. It is sure to have a tremendous impact in Iranian studies, modern Middle East history, and the history of gender and sexuality."--Beth Baron, author of Egypt as a Woman

"This is an extraordinary book. It rereads the story of Iranian modernity through the lens of gender and sexuality in ways that no other scholars have done."--Joan W. Scott, author of Gender and the Politics of History

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  • Title Women with Mustaches and Men Without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity
  • Author Afsaneh Najmabadi
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st PAPERBACK
  • Pages 377
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 2005-04-25
  • ISBN 9780520242630 / 0520242637
  • Weight 1.36 lbs (0.62 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.4 x 6.64 x 1.1 in (23.88 x 16.87 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
  • Library of Congress subjects Women - Iran - Social conditions - 19th, Women - Iran - Social conditions - 20th
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004017984
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.420

About the author

Afsaneh Najmabadi, Professor of History and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University, is author of The Story of the Daughters of Quchan: Gender and National Memory in Iranian History (1998), among other books.
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