Temporary Marriage in Iran. Gender and Body Politics in Modern Iranian Film and Literature, New ed, Paperback - ***

Analysing the representation of women in modern novels, short stories and cinema, this study is an examination of the controversial social institut...

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Eighteen months after Iran's Islamic Revolution in 1979, hundreds of thousands of the country's women participated in the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88) i...

Utilizing a historical context, this work underscores the continued struggle within these societies between the hardliners who wish to relegate fem...

Reducere. 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 ab...

Ishita Pande's innovative study tells a wide-ranging story about the importance of debates over child protection to India's coming of age, examinin...

Reducere. As far back as she can remember, Azadeh Moaveni has felt at odds with her tangled identity as an Iranian-American. In suburban America, Azadeh live...

This book on Syrian television drama manifests how gender roles are negotiated in the context of dominant Islamic and secular nationalist discourse...

DescriptionThe Business of Beauty is a unique exploration of the history of beauty, consumption, and business in Victorian and Edwardian London. Il...

Publisher: J.B. Hetzler'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung und Carl Ernst Poeschel GmbHIllustration(s): 9 Tables, color; 11 Illustrations, color; IX, 180 p. ...

Exploring popular culture and national identity in post-revolutionary Iran, this accessible and innovative book based on multi-disciplinary researc...

Reducere. Completed in 1938, the Trans-Iranian Railway connected Tehran to Iran's two major bodies of water: the Caspian Sea in the north and the Persian Gul...

Examines a watershed moment in the recent history of digital publishing through a case study of the pre-web, serious hypertext periodical, the East...

Offers the first systematic study of Roman vehicles in Latin literary texts. Examining key modes of transport including carts, carriages, chariots,...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 6 Line drawings, black and white; 28 Halftones, black and white; 64 Tables, black and white; 34 Ill...

This is the first investigation of solo dancers in Archaic and Classical Greek literature. It demonstrates that dancing alone signifies transgressi...

Explores the political aesthetics of 'lateness' in the cultural sphere after World War I, mapping intersections between the activities, attitudes a...

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Housing, Class and Gender in Modern British Writing, 1880–2012 - Emily Cuming

By prioritizing women and conjugality in the historiography of African colonial soldiers, Militarizing Marriage historicizes how the subjugation of...

An international and interdisciplinary group of film, architecture and urban studies scholars examine the relationship between filmmaking - the sev...

For Baudelaire, Paris streets conjured visions of the past even as he contemplated the present. This book investigates this and other cases of doub...

Explores how church disciplinary practices gendered Puritanism and challenged ideas of ministers. Laymen punished men for public behavior that thre...

An inside look at parole board decision making and its consequences.

An essential record of one of the most controversial figures within the history of African liberation politics, and an important figure in Robert M...

The Latinx revolution in US culture, society, and politics

The first book to comprehensively examine the literature of Byzantine Iconoclasm and its aftermath not as isolated phenomena, but within their own ...

The sixteen women discussed in this collection were world-makers whose craft influenced cultural practice so incisively that their shaping authorit...

Any observer of Dominican political and literary discourse will quickly notice how certain notions of hyper-masculinity permeate the culture. In th...

This volume brings together a range of essays by eminent and emergent scholars working at the intersection of modern literary, cinema and sound stu...

Exploration of the idea that House of Cards sets an alternate political world, where the leader is a ferocious animal, a political field overtaken ...

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Description Gender in Film and Video tracks changes in gender on screen by documenting trends of the internet age. The jargon-free book focuses on ...

Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar traces half a century of shifting Islamist doctrines, demonstrating that religious narratives in Iran can change rapidly...

Explores how literary form changes when Christianity and rabbinic Judaism take shape. By reading little-known but hugely influential texts, this bo...

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Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 1 Line drawings, black and white; 26 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 230Publication date...

The groundbreaking examination of the construction of sexual identity -- now updated to reflect the latest research.Why do some people prefer heter...

This volume gathers together ten original essays on the contemporary politics of visibility. Contributions are interdisciplinary and address an arr...

Publisher: Rutgers University PressAuthor(s): Kristin CelelloNumber of pages: 250Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 235 x 19Cover type: Paperb...

A challenging historical survey that questions the foundations of modern Islam

Now more than ever the role of icons and monuments in shaping a national identity is a subject of vital importance to scholars of both nationalism ...