Familial Undercurrents
- 200 stránok
- 7 hodin čítania
Afsaneh Najmabadi draws on her family history to tell a larger story of the transformations of notions of love, marriage, and family life in mid-twentieth-century Iran.
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Afsāneh Najmābādi je iránsko-americká historička a genderová teoretička, ktorej dielo skúma premeny konceptov a praxí sexuality v Iráne od konca 19. storočia po súčasnosť. Jej výskum sa hlboko ponára do historických a spoločenských procesov, ktoré formovali chápanie sexuality v tomto regióne. Prostredníctvom svojho akademického pôsobenia a publikačnej činnosti prispieva k hlbšiemu pochopeniu zložitých vzťahov medzi pohlavím, genderom a spoločnosťou v iránskom kontexte. Jej analýzy ponúkajú cenný vhľad do vývoja genderových štúdií a histórie Blízkeho východu.
- 2022
- 2005
Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards
- 377 stránok
- 14 hodin čítania
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.