Sexual Politics in Modern Iran (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521898461)

Janet Afary is a native of Iran and a leading historian. Her work focuses on gender and sexuality and draws on her experience of growing up in Iran and her involvement with Iranian women of different ages and social strata. These observations, and a wealth of historical documents, form the kernel of this book, which charts the history of the nation's sexual revolution from the nineteenth century to today. What comes across is the extraordinary resilience of the Iranian people, who have drawn on a rich social and cultural heritage to defy the repression and hardship of the Islamist state and its predecessors. It is this resilience, the author concludes, which forms the basis of a sexual revolution taking place in Iran today, one that is promoting reforms in marriage and family laws, and demanding more egalitarian gender and sexual relations.

Author: Janet Afary
ISBN-10: 0521898463
ISBN-13: 9780521898461
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/09/2009
Pages: 444
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.76lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 06/12/2009 pg. 21
Choice 03/01/2010