Revolutionary Bodies

Zusatztext Drawing on an innovating combination of archival, historical material; social policies including sexual health policies; art, women's magazines, and the rearrangement of public spaces in Iran over the last 100 years under two very different states, the author skillfully counters current understandings of the Islamic regime's treatment of women, their bodies, their dress and as a rupture from the Pahlavi era treatment of women. This book convincing argues that the policies of both regimes, and their perspectives on women, a part of a a continuum that views women and their public representation as central to national ideology as imagined by the state, regardless of each regime's particular political perspective. Readers are taken on an intriguing tour of a century of social and oral history and exploration of policy directives. This tour highlights the failures of these successive regimes to understand the diversity of Iranian women, to successfully manipulate women's bodies as a collective vehicle for state ideology, or to entrench their desired ideological hegemony. An unparalleled account of the role and the centrality of female citizens in the political imaginations of both the current Iranian regime and the Pahlavi monarchy it unseated, this is a work of original and interestingly sourced scholarship, and of thoughtful analysis. Informationen zum Autor K. S. Batmanghelichi is an associate faculty member at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research in New York! USA. Provides a nuanced investigation of how sexuality is regulated in contemporary Iran though five diverse conceptual and physical spaces. Zusammenfassung 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 normative ideas of women's bodies in state, religious, and public health discourses have resulted in the female body being deemed as immodest and taboo. Through a diverse blend of sources a popular cultural women's journal, a red-light district, cases studies of temporary marriages, iconic public statues, and an HIV-AIDS advocacy organization in Tehran - this work argues that conceptions of gender and sexuality have been mediated in public discourse and experienced and modified by women themselves over the past thirty years of the Islamic Republic.Expanding upon existing philosophical theory, technological research and scholarship on gender and sexuality in Iran, this book focuses much needed attention on under-studied, marginalized communities, such as widows living with HIV. This work interrogates how bodily technologies are constructed discursively and socially in Iran and the values and perspectives which are incorporated in them. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. 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 Iran5. HIV/AIDS and the Problem of 'Taboos' Talking ConclusionBibliographyIndex...

Préface
Provides a nuanced investigation of how sexuality is regulated in contemporary Iran though five diverse conceptual and physical spaces.

Auteur
K. S. Batmanghelichi is Associate Professor for the Study of Modern Iran in the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages at the University of Oslo, Norway.

Résumé
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 normative ideas of women's bodies in state, religious, and public health discourses have resulted in the female body being deemed as immodest and taboo. Through a diverse blend of sources a popular cultural women's journal, a red-light district, cases studies of temporary marriages, iconic public statues, and an HIV-AIDS advocacy organization in Tehran - this work argues that conceptions of gender and sexuality have been mediated in public discourse and experienced and modified by women themselves over the past thirty years of the Islamic Republic. Expanding upon existing philosophical theory, technological research and scholarship on gender and sexuality in Iran, this book focuses much needed attention on under-studied, marginalized communities, such as widows living with HIV. This work interrogates how bodily technologies are constructed discursively and socially in Iran and the values and perspectives which are incorporated in them.

Contenu
List of Figures Acknowledgements A Note On Transliteration Introduction 1. Reform: An Art Of Visual Persuasion 2. Red-lights In Parks: A Social History Of Park-E Razi 3. Safety valves and post-revolutionary prostitution 4. Naked Modesty And The Reformation Of Statues 5. When Hiv/Aids Meets Government Morality Conclusion Bibliography Index