: gender and sexual anxieties of Iranian modernity
First Statement of Responsibility
/ Afsaneh Najmabadi
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Berkelery
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: University of California Press
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 2005
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xiv, 363 p.
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: ill.
Dimensions
; 24 cm
GENERAL NOTES
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انگليسي
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Beauty, love, and sexuality: early Qajar -- Beauty, love, and sexuality: nineteenth-century transformations -- The eclipse of the (fe)male sun -- Vatan, the beloved: Vatan, the mother -- Women's veil and unveil -- The tragedy of romantic marriage -- Crafting an educated wife and mother -- Women or wives of the nation? -- Epilogue: feminism and its burden of birth
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Women -- Iran -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Women -- Iran -- Social conditions -- 20th century