Women With Mustaches And Men Without Beards
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Women With Mustaches And Men Without Beards
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Author : Afsaneh Najmabadi
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2005-04-25
Women With Mustaches And Men Without Beards written by Afsaneh Najmabadi and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-04-25 with History categories.
"This book is groundbreaking, at once highly original, courageous, and moving. It is sure to have a tremendous impact in Iranian studies, modern Middle East history, and the history of gender and sexuality."—Beth Baron, author of Egypt as a Woman "This is an extraordinary book. It rereads the story of Iranian modernity through the lens of gender and sexuality in ways that no other scholars have done."—Joan W. Scott, author of Gender and the Politics of History
Professing Selves
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Author : Afsaneh Najmabadi
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2013-12-02
Professing Selves written by Afsaneh Najmabadi and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-02 with Social Science categories.
Since the mid-1980s, the Islamic Republic of Iran has permitted, and partially subsidized, sex reassignment surgery. In Professing Selves, Afsaneh Najmabadi explores the meaning of transsexuality in contemporary Iran. Combining historical and ethnographic research, she describes how, in the postrevolutionary era, the domains of law, psychology and psychiatry, Islamic jurisprudence, and biomedicine became invested in distinguishing between the acceptable "true" transsexual and other categories of identification, notably the "true" homosexual, an unacceptable category of existence in Iran. Najmabadi argues that this collaboration among medical authorities, specialized clerics, and state officials—which made transsexuality a legally tolerated, if not exactly celebrated, category of being—grew out of Iran's particular experience of Islamicized modernity. Paradoxically, state regulation has produced new spaces for non-normative living in Iran, since determining who is genuinely "trans" depends largely on the stories that people choose to tell, on the selves that they profess.
Of Beards And Men
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Author : Christopher Oldstone-Moore
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2017-03-21
Of Beards And Men written by Christopher Oldstone-Moore and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-21 with Health & Fitness categories.
Beards—they’re all the rage these days. Take a look around: from hip urbanites to rustic outdoorsmen, well-groomed metrosexuals to post-season hockey players, facial hair is everywhere. The New York Times traces this hairy trend to Big Apple hipsters circa 2005 and reports that today some New Yorkers pay thousands of dollars for facial hair transplants to disguise patchy, juvenile beards. And in 2014, blogger Nicki Daniels excoriated bearded hipsters for turning a symbol of manliness and power into a flimsy fashion statement. The beard, she said, has turned into the padded bra of masculinity. Of Beards and Men makes the case that today’s bearded renaissance is part of a centuries-long cycle in which facial hairstyles have varied in response to changing ideals of masculinity. Christopher Oldstone-Moore explains that the clean-shaven face has been the default style throughout Western history—see Alexander the Great’s beardless face, for example, as the Greek heroic ideal. But the primacy of razors has been challenged over the years by four great bearded movements, beginning with Hadrian in the second century and stretching to today’s bristled resurgence. The clean-shaven face today, Oldstone-Moore says, has come to signify a virtuous and sociable man, whereas the beard marks someone as self-reliant and unconventional. History, then, has established specific meanings for facial hair, which both inspire and constrain a man’s choices in how he presents himself to the world. This fascinating and erudite history of facial hair cracks the masculine hair code, shedding light on the choices men make as they shape the hair on their faces. Oldstone-Moore adeptly lays to rest common misperceptions about beards and vividly illustrates the connection between grooming, identity, culture, and masculinity. To a surprising degree, we find, the history of men is written on their faces.
Islamicate Sexualities
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Author : Kathryn Babayan
language : en
Publisher: Harvard CMES
Release Date : 2008
Islamicate Sexualities written by Kathryn Babayan and has been published by Harvard CMES this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
This anthology explores different genealogies of sexuality and questions some of the theoretical emphases and epistemic assumptions affecting current histories of sexuality.
One Thousand Beards
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Author : Allan Peterkin
language : en
Publisher: arsenal pulp press
Release Date : 2001
One Thousand Beards written by Allan Peterkin and has been published by arsenal pulp press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Health & Fitness categories.
Every man has the capacity to grow facial hair, but the decision to do so has always come with layers of meaning. Facial hair has traditionally marked a passage into manhood, but its manifestations have been determined by class, religion, history and occupational status. In the end, the act of displaying facial hair is still regarded as a form of ultimate cool. With wit and insight, One Thousand Beards delves into the historical, contemporary and cultural meaning of facial hair in all of its forms, complete with numerous photographs and illustrations.
Gender In Contemporary Iran
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Author : Roksana Bahramitash
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2011-03-29
Gender In Contemporary Iran written by Roksana Bahramitash and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-29 with History categories.
This book examines gender and the transformation of contemporary Iran.€In particular it documents the changes in women's lives, challenging the idea that the revolution put back the clock for women and showing€how they have now become agents of social change rather than victims.
Familial Undercurrents
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Author : Afsaneh Najmabadi
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2022-01-04
Familial Undercurrents written by Afsaneh Najmabadi and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-04 with History categories.
Not long after her father died, Afsaneh Najmabadi discovered that her father had a secret second family and that she had a sister she never knew about. In Familial Undercurrents, Najmabadi uncovers her family’s complex experiences of polygamous marriage to tell a larger story of the transformations of notions of love, marriage, and family life in mid-twentieth-century Iran. She traces how the idea of “marrying for love” and the desire for companionate, monogamous marriage acquired dominance in Tehran’s emerging urban middle class. Considering the role played in that process by late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century romance novels, reformist newspapers, plays, and other literature, Najmabadi outlines the rituals and objects---such as wedding outfits, letter writing, and family portraits---that came to characterize the ideal companionate marriage. She reveals how in the course of one generation men’s polygamy had evolved from an acceptable open practice to a taboo best kept secret. At the same time, she chronicles the urban transformations of Tehran and how its architecture and neighborhood social networks both influenced and became emblematic of the myriad forms of modern Iranian family life.
The Islamic Manuscript Tradition
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Author : Christiane J. Gruber
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2010
The Islamic Manuscript Tradition written by Christiane J. Gruber and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
The rich and varied traditions of Islamic book art
Civilizing Emotions
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Author : Margrit Pernau
language : en
Publisher: Emotions in History
Release Date : 2015
Civilizing Emotions written by Margrit Pernau and has been published by Emotions in History this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with History categories.
Tracing the history of the concepts of civility and civilisation, 'Civilizing Emotions' chooses a global perspective and highlights the role of civility and civilisation in the creation of a new and hierarchised global order in the era of high imperialism and its entanglements, focusing on the developments in a number of well-chosen European and Asian countries. Emotions were at the core of the practices linked to the political project of the civilising process. 'Civilizing Emotions' brings out the role of emotions as an object of the civilising process.
Liminalities Of Gender And Sexuality In Nineteenth Century Iranian Photography
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Author : Staci Gem Scheiwiller
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2016-12-01
Liminalities Of Gender And Sexuality In Nineteenth Century Iranian Photography written by Staci Gem Scheiwiller and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-01 with Art categories.
Nineteenth-century Iran was an ocularcentered society predicated on visuality and what was seen and unseen, and photographs became liminal sites of desire that maneuvered "betwixt and between" various social spaces—public, private, seen, unseen, accessible, and forbidden—thus mapping, graphing, and even transgressing those spaces, especially in light of increasing modernization and global contact during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Of primary interest is how photographs negotiated and coded gender, sexuality, and desire, becoming strategies of empowerment, of domination, of expression, and of being seen. Hence, the photograph became a vehicle to traverse multiple locations that various gendered physical bodies could not, and it was also the social and political relations that had preceded the photograph that determined those ideological spaces of (im)mobility. In identifying these notions in photographs, one may glean information about how modern Iran metamorphosed throughout its own long durée or resisted those societal transformations as a result of modernization.