Women with mustaches and men without beards : gender and sexual anxieties of Iranian modernity / Afsaneh Najmabadi.
- Najmabadi, Afsaneh, 1946-
- Date:
- [2005], ©2005
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About this work
Also known as
Gender and sexual anxieties of Iranian modernity
Publication/Creation
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2005], ©2005.
Physical description
xiv, 363 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series
Contents
Beauty, love, and sexuality: early Qajar -- Beauty, love, and sexuality: nineteenth-century transformations -- The eclipse of the (fe)male sun -- Vatan, the beloved: Vatan, the mother -- Women's veil and unveil -- The tragedy of romantic marriage -- Crafting an educated wife and mother -- Women or wives of the nation? -- Epilogue: feminism and its burden of birth.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliography (p. 311-339) and index.
Reproduction note
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2006. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.