Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity

Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity
by Afsaneh Najmabadi

Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity
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Author: Afsaneh Najmabadi
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-04-25
ISBN: 0520242637
Number of pages: 377
Publisher: University of California Press

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Book Review: In the name of Iran
Summary: 5 Stars

This is book is discussing how Iranian ladies took active role in shaping Iran's fabric of society. Women were able to have social mobility because Iranian women began to make progress in educational field. Having said that, the book also discussed Iran's Lion and Sun flag. This book also mentioned how King of Kings Reza/Riza PAHLAVI contributed to women progress in Iran. Dr. Afsaneh NAJMABADI did a good job.

Summary of Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity

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.

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