Women with Mustaches and Men Without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity, Paperback - Afsaneh Najmabadi

Drawing from a rich array of visual and literary material from nineteenth-century Iran, this groundbreaking book rereads and rewrites the history o...

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Since the mid-1980s, the Islamic Republic of Iran has permitted, and partially subsidized, sex reassignment surgery. In Professing Selves, Afsaneh ...

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...

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I know I m not a man . . . and I ve come to the conclusion that I m probably not a woman, either. . . . . The trouble is, we re living in a world t...

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A variety of Chinese writings from the Song period (960-1279)--medical texts, religious treatises, fiction, and anecdotes--depict women who were co...

Beards--they're all the rage these days. Take a look around: from hip urbanites to rustic outdoorsmen, well-groomed metrosexuals to post-season hoc...

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Argues that gender relations have been a particular casualty of unexamined assumptions held by Western anthropologists and feminist scholars alike....

Foucault and the Iranian Revolution informs current discussion on the divisions that have reemerged among Western intellectuals over the response t...

First published in 1988, Peter Brown's The Body and Society was a groundbreaking study of the marriage and sexual practices of early Christians in ...

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A road map to every woman's success. Glass ceilings. #MeToo. Less than equal pay for equal work. After decades fighting to free ourselves from male...

An exploration of the influence of gender on the workings of memory in the Middle Ages, focussing on the non-elite.Illustrations: No

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Through a series of interrelated essays this book explores the nature of gender, desire, and nakedness, revealing their place in sexual life. Here ...

Tells the story of the women who were left alone after World War I - a remarkable generation of women who were changed by war; and in their turn he...

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This easy-to-use dictionary introduces the most essential vocabulary surrounding LGBTQ+ identities. Whether you're questioning your own identity or...

Studies of women's rhetorics to date have focused largely on the civic arena and the home. These two spheres are clearly important, but they ignore...

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

A powerful and unapologetic book exploring young women's experiences of rape, compiled of real stories, statistics and photographs.

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Jo RileyIllustration(s): 47 Line drawings, color; 46 Halftones, color; 27 Tables, color; 93 Illustrations...

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Tracing the emergence and evolution of the modern discourse on boredom in French and German literary, philosophical, and sociological texts, this b...

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1. Author is well--known for his original work on sexual politics.2. Major textb ook, covering many theories which have tackled the problem of gend...

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The turn of the twentieth century represented a crossroads in the French experience of modernization, especially in regard to ideas about gender an...