[PDF.38jn] Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran (Experimental Futures)

Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran (Experimental Futures)

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 | #404737 in Books |  2013-12-16 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x1.10 x6.00l,1.30 | File type: PDF | 432 pages

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||5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Outstanding study of gender and sexuality in Iran|By Anthony V. Shay|Afsaneh Najmabadi's pathbreaking studies of gender and sexuality in Iran are the most important studies of their kind in academia. They provide an important sociological background for those interested in the Middle East.|0 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars| |

"Professing Selves is one of the best recent works on contemporary Iran. Arguing that transsexuals' legal and psychiatric negotiations reveal more general processes of proceduralism, negotiation of legal categories, and state formation, Afsaneh Naj

Since the mid-1980s, the Islamic Republic of Iran has permitted, and partially subsidized, sex reassignment surgery. In Professing Selves, Afsaneh Najmabadi explores the meaning of transsexuality in contemporary Iran. Combining historical and ethnographic research, she describes how, in the postrevolutionary era, the domains of law, psychology and psychiatry, Islamic jurisprudence, and biomedicine became invested in distinguishing between the acceptable "true...

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