Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity
Drawing from a rich array of visual and literary material from nineteenth-century Iran, this groundbreaking book rereads and rewrites the history of Iranian modernity through the lens of gender and sexuality. Peeling away notions of a rigid pre-modern Islamic gender system, Afsaneh Najmabadi provides a compelling demonstration of the centrality of gender and sexuality to the shaping of modern culture and politics in Iran and of how changes in ideas about gender and sexuality affected...
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"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
Pt. IBeauty, love, and sexuality1Early Qajar112Nineteenth-century transformations26Pt. IICultural labor of sexuality and gender3The eclipse of the (fe)male sun634Vatan, the beloved; Vatan, the mother975Women's veil and unveil1326The tragedy of romantic marriage1567Crafting an educated wife and mother1818Women or wives of the nation?207Epilogue : feminism and its burden of birth232
