Sexual Politics in Modern Iran

Janet Afary is a native of Iran and a leading historian. Her work focuses on gender and sexuality and draws on her experience of growing up in Iran and her involvement with Iranian women of different ages and social strata. These observations, and a wealth of historical documents, form the kernel of this book, which charts the history of the nation's sexual revolution from the nineteenth century to today. What comes across is the extraordinary resilience of the Iranian people, who have drawn on a rich social and cultural heritage to defy the repression and hardship of the Islamist state and its predecessors. It is this resilience, the author concludes, which forms the basis of a sexual revolution taking place in Iran today, one that is promoting reforms in marriage and family laws, and demanding more egalitarian gender and sexual relations.

List of illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiv
Introduction	p. 1
Premodern practices	p. 17
Formal marriage	p. 19
Slave concubinage, temporary marriage, and harem wives	p. 50
Class, status-defined homosexuality, and rituals of courtship	p. 79
Toward a Westernized modernity	p. 109
On the road to an ethos of monogamous, heterosexual marriage	p. 111
Redefining purity, unveiling bodies, and shifting desires	p. 142
Imperialist politics, romantic love, and the impasse over women's suffrage	p. 174
Suffrage, marriage reforms, and the threat of female sexuality	p. 198
The rise of leftist guerrilla organizations and Islamist movements	p. 234
Forging an Islamist modernity and beyond	p. 263
The Islamic Revolution, its sexual economy, and the Left	p. 265
Islamist women and the emergence of Islamic feminism	p. 292
Birth control, female sexual awakening, and the gay lifestyle	p. 323
Conclusion: Toward a new Muslim-Iranian sexuality for the twenty-first century	p. 360
Glossary	p. 374
Bibliography	p. 378
Index	p. 411
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