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Sexual politics in modern iran / Janet Afary.
Publication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.Description: xviii, 423 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780521727082 (pbk.) :
- 0521727081 (pbk.) :
- HQ1735.2 .A67 2009
Contents:
Pt. 1. Pre-modern Practices -- 1. Formal marriage -- 2. Slave concubinage, temporary marriage, and harem wives -- 3. Class, status-defined homosexuality, and rituals of courtship -- Pt. 2. 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 Islamist movements -- Pt. 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.
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Pt. 1. Pre-modern Practices -- 1. Formal marriage -- 2. Slave concubinage, temporary marriage, and harem wives -- 3. Class, status-defined homosexuality, and rituals of courtship -- Pt. 2. 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 Islamist movements -- Pt. 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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 378-410) and index.
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