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Western women’s involvement in Persia dates from the mid-nineteenth century, when female adventurers and missionaries first encountered their veiled Muslim “sisters.” Twentieth-century Western and state-sponsored Iranian feminists continued to use the image of the veiled woman as the... read more
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First Sentence edit
"An imaginative aunt who, for my ninth birthday, sent a copy of The Arabian Nights was, I suppose, the original cause of trouble."
Table of Contents edit
Preface
Introduction
1. Enlightening the Other: Christian Sisters and Intrepid Adventuresses
2. Scopophilic Desires: Unveiling Iranian Women
3. Global Sisters in Revolutionary Iran
4. Female Homosocial Communities in Iranian Feminist Film
Conclusion: Communicating across Disciplines Post 9/11
Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Authors & Contributors edit
- Nima Naghibi (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Country: United States of America
Publication Date: 2007
ISBN: 9780816647590
Page Count: 187
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Country: United States of America
Publication Date: 2007
ISBN: 9780816647590
Page Count: 187
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: HQ1735.2.N34
- Dewey: 305.48'89155
Subjects edit
- Books › History › Middle East › Iran
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Sociology
- Books › Nonfiction › Women's Studies › Feminist Theory
- Books › Gay & Lesbian › Nonfiction › Philosophy
- Books › Gay & Lesbian › History
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