...Maryam Zehtabi Sabeti Moqaddam Abstract In Iran—as never before in the history of the country—prostitutes gained notorious visibility in twentieth-century Persian literature. Fixation on the image of the prostitute created a wealth of literature beginning in 1924 with the first Persian urban social...

... 2020 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Iran revolution Persian literature gender An impoverished peasant woman fights to keep a meager plot of land from being taken over by an industrial farming project...

... of inquiry. Motlagh fo- cuses exclusively on the literature of modern Iran, leaving the Persianate literatures of Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and other Persophone borderlands to other scholars. Her empirical focus generates a desire for a break in the Iranocentric account Persian literary modernity...

... . Talattof Kamran . 2000 . The Politics of Writing in Iran: A History of Modern Persian Literature . Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press . Talattof Kamran , and Sharlet Jocelyn , trans. 1998 . Women without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran , by Parsipur Shahrnush . New York...

... almost exclusively to men. But beginning in the 1950s, a new tradition of writing by women emerged in Iran, and it was a development that would completely transform Persian literature in the space of half a century. Th at women are today a vital 106  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES 6:1...

..., Culture, and Language in the Near East: Studies in Honor of Georg Krotkoff , edited by Afsaruddin Asma and Zahniser A. H. Mathias , 87 – 104 . Winona Lake, IN : Eisenbrauns . Talattof Kamran . 2000 . The Politics of Writing in Iran: A History of Modern Persian Literature...

...). This novel signified a great shift in Persian literature because it was the first social novel ever published in Iran. Tehran-e Makhuf is also one of the first novels with a female protagonist who is not a caricature of an exceptional wife, mother, or daughter. Yaghoobi reads this novel as a critique...

... of Writing in Iran: A History of Modern Persian Literature . Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press . Tensuan Theresa M. 2006 . “ Comic Visions and Revisions in the Work of Lynda Barry and Marjane Satrapi .” Modern Fiction Studies 52 , no. 4 : 947 – 64 . Woolf Virginia . 1938...

..., received lessons in the Qur’an and religious stories, Persian and Arabic language, Persian literature, reading, writing, and perhaps some lim- ited instruction in European geography, history, and languages (Sheil 1973; Bamdad 1977, 71). Some upper-class girls received instruction in domestic science...

... of national threat in the nineteenth century; see Floor 2004:33. For images of prostitution in interwar Persian literature, see Nikitine 1954. 4. For prostitution and the law in the interwar period, see Schayegh 2004: 360–3. In June 1941, the Iranian Parliament passed a law for the prevention...

... theatre, Baum is thorough in covering his sources. Th e slender book is divided into four sections titled “Persia in Late Antiquity,” “Chosroes II (590-628) and Shirin: Th e Persian Royal Couple,” “Th e Shirin Myth in Literature and Art,” and “Th e Rediscovery of Shirin.” Early...

...Guilan Siassi BOOK REVIEWS  119 Sohrabi, Naghmeh 2005 Signs Taken for Wonder: Nineteenth-Century Persian Travel Literature to Europe. Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University. Tavakoli Targhi, Mohamad 2001 Refashioning...

... of Persian-language television programs, articles and news reports, weblogs, and Facebook posts responding to Ermia reveals how a reality television contestant came to disturb simplistic but powerful binaries of modest/immodest, religious/secular, Iranian/Western, and national/diasporic as she combined...

... to move and settle in different parts of its extended domain, cosmopolitanism was taken for granted. With a Circassian mother—a freed slave—and a Turkish-speaking father, the aristocratic Taymurs used Persian as the language of literature and refinement and Arabic as the language...

...Nayereh Tohidi Copyright © 2017 by Kharmagas: Nashriyeh falsafi ejtemayi ( Gadfly: Persian Journal of Philosophy ) 2017 In 2015 I was asked to conduct an interview with Judith Butler by the editorial board of Kharmagas: Nashriyyih Falsafi-Ejtemaʿi ( Gadfly: Persian Journal of Philosophy...

... of the Persian Patriotic Women’s League at which Nour Hamada delivered the speech translated below was held on Friday eve- ning, November 11, 1932, at the Institute of Science and Literature in Tehran. Other women who spoke at this meeting, which proclaimed the link between women’s education...

... (chap. 1), for pleasure. Chapter 3 gives an account of a spontaneous prayer, or doʾa . Unlike namaz, doʾa is not obligatory and is done in Persian instead of Arabic. Further, there is a difference between the doʾa spontaneously performed and the doʾa written by imams in the form of prayer...

... opportunities for women. Primary sources include major Persian-language biographies that have appeared in Iran over the last thirty years and research from two fieldwork trips. Copyright © 2015 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2015 female religious authority mujtahida Islam...

...  119 Sohrabi, Naghmeh 2005 Signs Taken for Wonder: Nineteenth-Century Persian Travel Literature to Europe. Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University. Tavakoli Targhi, Mohamad 2001 Refashioning Iran: Orientalism, Occidentalism and Historiography. New York: Palgrave...

.... The complementary array of evocative photographs draws the outsider further into the Bakhtiars’ private orbit. While working as a nurse in New York City in 1927, Helen met and married Abol Bakhtiar, a Persian physician educated in the United States and almost thirty-five years her senior...