Modern intellectual and political history of the Middle East
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Academic writing and writing about lives : an introduction -- Modernity, sexuality, and popular culture : Iran's social agony -- Iranian women and public space in the seventies : Shahrzad, a woman of her time -- Seduction, sin, and salvation : spurious sexuality in dance and film -- Shahrzad as a writer : the question of literary modernity -- Social change in Iran and the transforming lives of women artists -- Ideology, sexuality, and sexual agency : an afterword.
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Saidi, Kubra.
Women authors - Iranian - Biography.
Women artists - Iran - Biography.
Women dancers - Iran - Biography.
Women in popular culture - Iran - History - 20th century.
Sex - Social aspects - Iran - History - 20th century.