Revolutionary Bodies: Technologies of Gender, Sex, and Self in Contemporary Iran

by Kristin Soraya Batmanghelichi

Gender and sexuality in modern Iran is frequently examined through the prism of nationalist symbols and religious discourse from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In this book, Kristin Soraya Batmanghelichi takes a different approach, by interrogating how normative ideas of women's bodies in state, religious, and public health discourses have resulted in the female body being deemed as immodest and taboo. Through a diverse blend of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350050024
• ISBN13: 9781350050020
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"