The author relates a wrenching hidden story of her family's true origins in Iran: her mother's troubled history of abuse and neglect, and a daughter, Sara, whom she was forced to abandon in order to escape that life.
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The author relates a wrenching hidden story of her family's true origins in Iran: her mother's troubled history of abuse and neglect, and a daughter, Sara, whom she was forced to abandon in order to escape that life.
This book provides an overview of the range of seminarian thinking in Iran on the controversial topic of the hijab. During the modern period, Iran has suffered a great deal of conflict and confusion caused by the impact of Western views on the hijab in the 19th century, Riza Sha…
Investigates how women, religion and culture have interacted in the context of 19th and 20th century Iran, covering topics as seemingly diverse as the social and cultural history of Persian cuisine, the work and attitudes of 19th century Christian missionaries, the impact of gro…
Women, religion and culture in Iran
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Women, religion and culture in Iran
by Ansari, Sarah F. D., Martin, Vanessa
fromRoyal Asiatic Society books
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Investigates how women, religion and culture have interacted in the context of 19th and 20th century Iran, covering topics as seemingly diverse as the social and cultural history of Persian cuisine, the work and attitudes of 19th century Christian missionaries, the impact of gro…
Introduction -- 1. Breasts, Hands and Faces: Gazing at Iran's Mediascape -- 2. Red-Lights in Parks: a Social History of Park-E Razi -- 3. Post-Revolutionary 'Prostitution' and its Discontents -- 4. Naked Modesty and the Reformation of Statues in Post-Revolutionary Iran -- 5. HIV…
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 normat…
"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 norma…
Breasts, Hands and Faces : Gazing at Iran's Mediascape -- Red-Lights in Parks : a Social History of Park-E Razi -- Post-Revolutionary 'Prostitution' and its Discontents -- Naked Modesty and the Reformation of Statues in Post-Revolutionary Iran -- HIV/AIDS and the Problem of 'Tab…
"Gender and sexuality in modern Iran is frequently examined through the prism of nationalist symbols and religious discourse. Batmanghelichi interrogates how normative ideas of women's bodies in state, religious, and public health have resulted in the female body being deemed as…
"Gender and sexuality in modern Iran is frequently examined through the prism of nationalist symbols and religious discourse. Batmanghelichi interrogates how normative ideas of women's bodies in state, religious, and public health have resulted in the female body being deemed as…
