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The Education of Women and The Vices of Men: Two Qajar Tracts, trans. Hasan Javadi and Willem Floor, Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8156-3240-5, xxv + 191 pp (hardback).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Mostafa Abedinifard*
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University of Alberta

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References

1 See Javādi, Hasan, Mar'ashī, Manizheh, and Shekarlu, Simin, eds., Ruyāru'i-e Zan va Mard dar Asr-e Qājār: Do Resaleh-ye Ta'dib al-Nesvān va Ma'āyeb al-Rejāl (Evanston, IL, 1992)Google Scholar. See also Najmabadi, Afsaneh, Ma‘āyib al-Rijāl: Vices of Men (Chicago, IL, 1992)Google Scholar. All my references to Najmābādi's work are to the 1993 edition published by Nashr-e Bārān in Sweden.

2 Karāchi, Ruhangiz, “Nevisandeh-ye Asli-e Ta'dib al-Nesvān Kist?” [Who Is The Original Author of Ta'dib al-Nesvān?], Tārikh-e Adabiyāt 65, no. 3 (1389/2010): 199208Google Scholar.

3 Karāchi, “Nevisandeh-ye Asli-e Ta'dib al-Nesvān Kist?,” 203–5.

4 For a concise account of some such theories, see Nida, Eugene, “Principles of Correspondence,” in The Translation Studies Reader, ed. Venuti, Lawrence (London, 2000), 131–4Google Scholar.

5 Damrosch, David, How to Read World Literature (Malden, MA, 2009), 66Google Scholar.

6 See, for instance, Kimmel, Michael S., “Consuming Manhood: The Feminization of American Culture and the Recreation of the Male Body, 1832–1920,” in History of Men: Essays on the History of American and British Masculinities (Albany, NY, 2005), 3759Google Scholar.

7 See Najmabadi, Ma'āyeb al-Rejal, 10–11.

8 Javadi, Mar'ashi, and Shekarlu, Ruyāru'i-e Zan va Mard dar Asr-e Qājār, 22.

9 Najmabadi, Ma'āyeb al-Rejal, 12–17.

10 Ibid., 16–17, 37.

11 Javadi, Mar'ashi, and Shekarlu, Ruyāru'i-e Zan va Mard dar Asr-e Qājār, 63.

12 Ibid., 76.

13 Ibid., 142.

14 Ibid., 144.

15 Afary, Janet, “On the Origins of Feminism in Early 20th-Century Iran,Journal of Women's History 1, no. 1 (1989): 6587CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

16 For conjectures on the circulation of Ma'āyeb al-Rejāl, see Najmabadi, Afsaneh, “Bibi Khanum,The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, ed. Smith, Bonnie G. (Oxford, 2008), 229Google Scholar.

17 For an insightful essay which puts Aqā'ed al-Nesā in its historical and political context, see Babayan, Kathryn, “The ‘Aqā’īd Al-Nisā': A Glimpse at Ṣafavid Women in Local Iṣfahānī Culture,” in Women in the Medieval Islamic World: Power, Patronage, and Piety, ed. Hambly, Gavin (New York, 1998), 349–81Google Scholar.

18 Billig, Michael, Laughter and Ridicule: Towards a Social Critique of Humour (London, 2005)Google Scholar.

19 See Najmabadi, Afsaneh, Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity (Berkeley, CA, 2005)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

20 See Afary, Sexual Politics in Modern Iran, 134–41.