Afary, Janet,

Sexual politics in modern Iran / Janet Afary. - xviii, 423 páginas : ilustraciones, mapas

Incluye bibliografía.

_ Premodern practices : Formal marriage -- Slave concubinage, temporary marriage, and harem wives -- Class, status-defined homosexuality, and rituals of courtship -- Toward a Westernized modernity : On the road to an ethos of monogamous, heterosexual marriage -- Redefining purity, unveiling bodies, and shifting desires -- Imperialist politics, romantic love, and the impasse over women´s suffrage -- Suffrage, marriage reforms, and the threat of female sexuality -- The rise of leftist guerrilla organizations and Islamist movements -- Forging an Islamist modernity and beyond : The Islamic Revolution, its sexual economy, and the Left -- Islamist women and the emergence of Islamic feminism -- Birth control, female sexual awakening, and the gay lifestyle -- Conclusion : toward a new Muslim-Iranian sexuality for the twenty-first century. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3.

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Derechos de la mujer.
Feminismo.--Irán.
Mujeres--Condiciones sociales.--Irán
Mujeres.--Conducta sexual--Irán.

305.30955 / A256s 2009