Book Details
Orange Code:33026
Paperback:333 pages
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1. Academic Writing and Writing about Lives2. Modernity, Sexuality, and Popular Culture3. Iranian Women and Public Space in the Seventies4. Seduction, Sin, and Salvation5. Shahrzad as a Writer6. Social Change in Iran and the Transforming Lives of Women Artists7. Ideology, Sexuality, and Sexual Agency
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For more than a century Iran's social, political, and cultural history has been defined by a struggle toward or away from modernity. In this book Talatoff makes a compelling argument that, despite revolutionary upheaval, the ideals of modernity remain remote due to the absence of a modern notion of sexuality. He illustrates his assertion through the life of Shahrzad, a celebrated stage and screen actress, dancer, journalist, and published poet who eventually became imprisoned and later homeless in the streets of Tehran. Tracing her career along with other pre-revolutionary women artists, Talatoff explores the relationship between gender, sexuality, media, and modernity in Iran.
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