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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      13 January 2020
      30 January 2020
      ISBN:
      9781108768948
      9781108488105
      9781108738439
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108768948
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.56kg, 308 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.46kg, 312 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Middle East Studies, Area Studies, History, Middle East History
      Series:
      The Global Middle East (12)
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    Subjects:
    Middle East Studies, Area Studies, History, Middle East History
    Series:
    The Global Middle East (12)
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    Book description

    Proposing a methodology that brings feminist theories of embodiment to bear on the Iranian literary and cinematic tradition, this study examines temporary marriage in Iran, not just as an institution but also as a set of practices, identities and meanings that have transformed over the course of the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. Based on analysis of novels and short stories from the Pahlavi era, and cinematic works produced after the Islamic Revolution, Claudia Yaghoobi looks at the representation of the sigheh women, or those who entered into temporary marriages. Each work reflects the manner in which the practice of sigheh impacts women by calling into question how sexuality works as a form of political analysis and power, revealing how a sigheh woman's sexual bodily autonomy is used as ammunition against what governments deem inappropriate gendered expression. While focusing mainly on modern Iranian cultural productions, Yaghoobi moves beyond the literary and cinematic realms to offer an in-depth examination of this controversial social institution which has been the subject of disdain for many Iranian feminists and captured the imagination of many Western observers.

    Reviews

    'Yaghoobi’s mastery over her source material is impressive, and the many ways in which she brings Persian realist fiction of the early and mid-twentieth century into meaningful dialogue with post-revolutionary cinema are admirable. This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the social and political debates around gender and the female body in contemporary Iran.'

    Dominic Parviz Brookshaw - University of Oxford

    'What distinguishes Claudia Yaghoobi’s winning storytelling and her original contribution to our knowledge of women, sexuality and temporary marriage in Iran, is her skillful analysis and highly engaging interpretations of sigheh women’s paradoxical role at the margin of society yet at the center of male fantasy.'

    Shahla Haeri - Boston University

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    Contents

    Contents
    • Introduction
      pp 9-44
    • Body Politics and Sigheh Marriages
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