Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran

Since the mid-1980s, the Islamic Republic of Iran has permitted, and partially subsidized, sex reassignment surgery. In...
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Author: Afsaneh Najmabadi
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Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran by Najmabadi, Afsaneh

Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran

$96.25

Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran

$96.25
Author: Afsaneh Najmabadi
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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" transsexual and other categories of identification, notably the "true" homosexual, an unacceptable category of existence in Iran. Najmabadi argues that this collaboration among medical authorities, specialized clerics, and state officials-which made transsexuality a legally tolerated, if not exactly celebrated, category of being-grew out of Iran's particular experience of Islamicized modernity. Paradoxically, state regulation has produced new spaces for non-normative living in Iran, since determining who is genuinely "trans" depends largely on the stories that people choose to tell, on the selves that they profess.

Author: Afsaneh Najmabadi
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 12/16/2013
Pages: 418
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780822355571


Review Citation(s):
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About the Author

Afsaneh Najmabadi is the Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. She is the author of Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity and The Story of the Daughters of Quchan: Gender and National Memory in Iranian History. She is a coeditor (with Kathryn Babayan) of Islamicate Sexualities: Translations across Temporal Geographies of Desire.


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