Familial Undercurrents
- 200 Seiten
- 7 Lesestunden
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.
Afsaneh Najmabadi Reihenfolge der Bücher
Afsāneh Najmābādi ist eine iranisch-amerikanische Historikerin und Gender-Theoretikerin, deren Werk sich mit der Transformation von Konzepten und Praktiken der Sexualität im Iran vom späten 19. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart befasst. Ihre Forschung taucht tief in die historischen und sozialen Prozesse ein, die das Verständnis von Sexualität in dieser Region geprägt haben. Durch ihre akademischen Beiträge und Veröffentlichungen fördert sie ein differenzierteres Verständnis der komplexen Beziehungen zwischen Geschlecht, Gender und Gesellschaft im iranischen Kontext. Ihre Analysen bieten wertvolle Einblicke in die Entwicklung der Gender Studies und der Geschichte des Nahen Ostens.
- 2022
- 2005
Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards
- 377 Seiten
- 14 Lesestunden
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.
- 1998
The book explores a pivotal event in 1905 when Iranian women were sold or captured, igniting a national outcry. Following the establishment of the new parliament in 1906, relatives of the victims sought justice, prompting a societal examination of women's rights and the implications of such violence. Najmabadi delves into the reasons behind the incident's profound impact on Iranian society, highlighting themes of gender, power, and the quest for accountability in a rapidly changing political landscape.