TY  - BOOK
AU  - Afary,Janet
TI  - Sexual politics in modern iran
SN  - 9780521727082 (pbk.) :
AV  - HQ1735.2 .A67 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Cambridge, UK, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Women
KW  - Iran
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Sexual behavior
KW  - Feminism
KW  - Women's rights
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 378-410) and index; 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.
ER  -