Women with mustaches and men without beards

Najmabadi, Afsaneh, 1946-

Women with mustaches and men without beards gender and sexual anxieties of Iranian modernity / [electronic resource] : Afsaneh Najmabadi. - Berkeley : University of California Press, 2005. - xiv, 363 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Beauty, love, and sexuality: early Qajar -- Beauty, love, and sexuality: nineteenth-century transformations -- The eclipse of the (fe)male sun -- Vatan, the beloved: Vatan, the mother -- Women's veil and unveil -- The tragedy of romantic marriage -- Crafting an educated wife and mother -- Women or wives of the nation? -- Epilogue: feminism and its burden of birth.


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Women--Social conditions--Iran--19th century.
Women--Social conditions--Iran--20th century.
Gender identity--History.--Iran


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