Najmabadi Professing Selves

Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7729-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

Reihe: Experimental Futures

The Islamic Republic of Iran permits, and even partially subsidizes, sex reassignment surgery. Based on historical and ethnographic research, Afsaneh Najmabadi examines what transsexuality means in postrevolutionary Iran.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Najmabadi, Afsaneh

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

1. Entering the Scene 15

2. "Before" Transexuality 38

3. Murderous Passions, Deviant Insanities 75

4. "Around" 1979: Gay Tehran? 120

5. Verdicts of Science, Rulings of Faith 163

6. Changing the Terms: Playing "Snakes and Ladders" with the State 202

7. Living Patterns, Narrative Styles 231

8. Professing Selves: Sexual/Gender Proficiencies 275

Glossary of Persian Terms and Acronyms 303

Notes 305

Works Cited 373

Index 389

Über Autor(innen)

Afsaneh Najmabadi is the Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. She is the author of Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity and The Story of the Daughters of Quchan: Gender and National Memory in Iranian History. She is a coeditor (with Kathryn Babayan) of Islamicate Sexualities: Translations across Temporal Geographies of Desire.