Modernity, sexuality, and ideology in Iran
Subtitle: the life and legacy of popular Iranian female artists
By: Kamran Talattof
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Modern intellectual and political history of the Middle East
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Syracuse, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780815632245
Subjects: Women in popular culture; Women dancers; Intellectual life; Iranian Women authors; Social change; Sex; Ideology; Women artists; Social conditions; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Academic writing and writing about lives : an introduction; title: Modernity, sexuality, and popular culture : Iran's social agony; title: Iranian women and public space in the seventies : Shahrzad, a woman of her time; title: Seduction, sin, and salvation : spurious sexuality in dance and film; title: Shahrzad as a writer : the question of literary modernity; title: Social change in Iran and the transforming lives of women artists; title: Ideology, sexuality, and sexual agency : an afterword.