Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran

by Afsaneh Najmabadi

Book Overview

Since the mid-1980s, the Islamic Republic of Iran has permitted, and partially subsidized, sex reassignment surgery. In Professing Selves, Afsaneh Najmabadi explores the meaning of transsexuality in contemporary Iran. Combining historical and ethnographic research, she describes how, in the postrevolutionary era, the domains of law, psychology and psychiatry, Islamic jurisprudence, and biomedicine became invested in distinguishing between the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822355434
• ISBN13: 9780822355434
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"