Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards
Subtitle: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: April 25, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9780520242623
Subjects: Gay & Lesbian studies; History; Sociology; History: World; Iran; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Gender Studies; Middle East - General; History / Middle East; 19th century; 20th century; Gender identity; Social conditions; Women
First sentence: Years ago, in the heat of a polemical exchange with a historian of Qajar Iran (1785-1925), who expressed regret and dismay that doing Qajar women's history was impossible because few historical sources and solid extant records about women of that period existed, I retorted, "But if we use gender analytically, sources about men are also sources about women."