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... as a generalized experience, shared equally by Iranian children of all genders and backgrounds. At the same time, textbook authors attach particularistic qualities to the transition from childhood to adulthood, depicting the process of growing up as a distinctly gendered experience. The article concludes...

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...Janet L. Bauer Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2000 Afshar, Haleh. 1996 . Islam and Feminisms. An Iranian Case-Study . New York: St. Martin's Press. Amarasingham, Lorna. 1980 . “Making Friends in a New Culture: South Asian Women In Boston,Massachusetts...

...Arlene Dallalfar This qualitative ethnographic research is focused on Jewish Iranians currently living in Iran. I examine the vital role of gender, ethnicity, religion, class, family, and community in daily social and cultural practices among middle-class Judeo-Persians living in Tehran...

...Sabri Ateş This article examines Ottoman responses to Iranians bringing corpses for burial in holy Shi`i sites in Ottoman Iraq, and focuses on questions of sovereignty, frontiers, commerce, and sanitation. Bringing together the Shi`is of both sides of the Ottoman-Iranian frontier, this curious...

...Misagh Parsa Scholars of the Iranian revolution have often explained the 1979 overthrow of the Pahlavi regime in terms of the rise of an Islamic movement that inspired Iranians to challenge the shah, confront the powerful army, and engage in martyrdom to bring down the monarchy. Leaders...

... to inquire whether the Iranian Left has ever been consciously secular. Duke University Press 2011 Secularism and the Iranian Militant Left: Political Misconception or Cultural Issues? Peyman Vahabzadeh n A Guerrilla Odyssey, I characterize Iran in the 1960s and 1970s using the term...

...Babak Elahi; Persis M. Karim © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Introduction: Iranian Diaspora...

...Amy Malek In the last decade Iranian Americans have increasingly taken to the same streets and fair-grounds as Irish, German, and Puerto Rican American communities before them to hold ethnic parades and festivals to assert their cultural and ethnic identity to an American public often hostile...

...Amy Motlagh The proliferation of popular memoirs by Iranian American women that began in 2003 engendered a vigorous debate in the scholarly community, particularly among Iranian American scholars. Much of the debate has centered on the perception that the memoirists are offering a personal story...

...Melissa Kelly War and political persecution led thousands of Iranians to migrate to Sweden in the 1980s and 1990s. Forced to flee from their homeland to a relatively unknown place, the lives of these migrants changed both abruptly and dramatically. Since their arrival in Sweden, and up...

...Nina Farnia This article examines the racialization of Iran and Iranians by excavating the treatment of Iran in the naturalization cases from the early twentieth century. In so doing, the article highlights both the continuities and disjunctures of a racialization process that began long before...

...Manijeh Nasrabadi This article brings Iranian American return narratives into dialogue with reinterpretations of Freud’s analysis of melancholia in the works of Judith Butler, Jonathan Flatley, David Kazanjian, David Eng, and Shinhee Ham, among others. By refusing to relinquish Iran as a physical...

...Anna M. Dempsey One of the signature characteristics of Iranian film since the Islamic Revolution of 1979 is the appearance of children as primary protagonists in narratives about postrevolutionary life. Abbas Kiarostami in Where Is the Friend’s Home? (1987), for example, uses children as observers...

...Mona Damluji As the most widely circulated cinematic portrait of Abadan under full administration of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), the AIOC film Persian Story offers an exceptional opportunity to examine the ways in which the British company linked the idea of modernity to the image...

...: Accommodation and Revolution in an Iranian Village .” In Religion and Politics in Iran , edited by Keddie Nikki R. . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 1983 . Ingals Alan D. “ Jihad and Martyrdom .” Journal of Ministry and Theology 6 ( 2002 ): 5 – 20 . Jahanbakhsh Forough...

... Persianate ideas of moral refinement and ethical behavior to put forth modern visions of self and collective association. This process posed a self that was Iranian but identifiable according to Persianate notions of collectivity, allowing for simultaneous broader affiliations with Muslims, Indians...

...Farzin Vejdani It is often assumed that Indo-Iranian cultural entanglements disappeared by the early twentieth century because of the rise of imperialism and colonialism, exclusionary forms of nationalism, and the accompanying loss of certain linguistic competencies. This article calls...

...: Selected Writings (Westport: Greenwood Press). Turner , Bryan S. ( 1983 ) “Asiatic Society”, in Bottomore, Tom (ed.), A Dictionary of Marxist Thought (Cambridge: Harvard University Press). Theories of Development and the Iranian Left ( 1960s-70s...

...Negar Mottahedeh © 1998: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1998 The Mutilated Body of the Modern Nation: Qurrat al-‘Ayn Tahirah’s Unveiling and the Iranian Massacre of the Babis Negar Mottahedeh...