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The Global Middle East Ser.: Temporary Marriage in Iran : Gender and Body Politics in Modern Iranian Film and Literature by Claudia Yaghoobi (2022, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-101108738435
ISBN-139781108738439
eBay Product ID (ePID)12057245294
Product Key Features
Number of Pages310 Pages
Publication NameTemporary Marriage in Iran : Gender and Body Politics in Modern Iranian Film and Literature
LanguageEnglish
SubjectMiddle East / General, Linguistics / General
Publication Year2022
FeaturesNew Edition
TypeTextbook
AuthorClaudia Yaghoobi
Subject AreaLanguage Arts & Disciplines, History
SeriesThe Global Middle East Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.6 in
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Reviews'Yaghoobi's mastery over her source material is impressive, and the many ways in which she brings Persian realist fiction of the early and mid-twentieth century into meaningful dialogue with post-revolutionary cinema are admirable. This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the social and political debates around gender and the female body in contemporary Iran.' Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, University of Oxford
Dewey Edition23
Series Volume NumberSeries Number 12
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal891.55093543
Edition DescriptionNew Edition
Table Of ContentPrologue: sexpionage and the female body; Part I. General Overview: Introduction: body politics and sigheh marriages; 1. Sigheh marriages in modern Iran; Part II. Representation of Sigheh/Sex Work in the Literature of Pahlavi Era: 2. Gendered violence in Moshfeq-e Kazemi's Tehran-e Makhuf; 3. The volatile sigheh/sex workers' bodies in Jamalzadeh's Ma'sumeh Shirazi; 4. Colonized bodies in Al-e Ahmad's 'Jashn-e Farkhonde'; 5. The grotesque sigheh/sex workers' bodies in Golestan's 'Safar-e 'Esmat'; 6. Bodily inscriptions in Chubak's Sang-e Sabur; Part III. The Islamic Republic and Sigheh in Film Industry: 7. Whose body matters in Afkhami's Showkaran; 8. Embodiment, power, and politics in Farahbakhsh's Zendegi-ye Khosusi; Reclaiming the female body via writing.
SynopsisAnalysing the representation of women in modern novels, short stories and cinema, this study is an examination of the controversial social institution of sigheh or temporary marriage in Iran, not just as an institution but also as a set of practices, identities and meanings that have transformed over the last two centuries., Proposing a methodology that brings feminist theories of embodiment to bear on the Iranian literary and cinematic tradition, this study examines temporary marriage in Iran, not just as an institution but also as a set of practices, identities and meanings that have transformed over the course of the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. Based on analysis of novels and short stories from the Pahlavi era, and cinematic works produced after the Islamic Revolution, Claudia Yaghoobi looks at the representation of the sigheh women, or those who entered into temporary marriages. Each work reflects the manner in which the practice of sigheh impacts women by calling into question how sexuality works as a form of political analysis and power, revealing how a sigheh woman's sexual bodily autonomy is used as ammunition against what governments deem inappropriate gendered expression. While focusing mainly on modern Iranian cultural productions, Yaghoobi moves beyond the literary and cinematic realms to offer an in-depth examination of this controversial social institution which has been the subject of disdain for many Iranian feminists and captured the imagination of many Western observers.
LC Classification NumberPK6424.T46Y34 2022
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