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...Roksana Bahramitash This paper reviews the experience of Iranian women during the reform era (1997–2004) from a postcolonial feminist theoretical perspective, and challenges the mainstream literature on women in the Muslim world in its tendency to portray them as passive victims. Iranian women...

...Ashraf Zahedi This article examines the history of the veil and its changing social meanings in Iran. Embedded in the meaning of the veil is the erotic meaning of female hair. The symbiotic relations of the “cover” (the veil) and the “covered” (female hair) are central to this history. Iranian...

.... Northampton, MA: Interlink Books, 2004. Pp. xiii, 242. ISBN 1566565111. Let Me Tell You Where I’ve Been: New Writing by Women of the Iranian Diaspora Persis M. Karim, ed. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2006. Pp. xxix, 349. ISBN...

.... In this article, we first examine the “Iranian ART revolution” that has allowed donor technologies to be admitted as a form of assisted reproduction. Then we examine the response of Iranian women to their infertility and the profound social pressures they face. We argue that the experience of infertility and its...

...Kathryn Babayan Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity , Najmabadi Afsaneh . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2005 . Pp. xiv, 363 . ISBN 0-52024-262-9 . Copyright © 2009 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies...

...Jasmin Darznik This essay explores the legacy of Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad (1935–1967) in the Iranian American diaspora. At once political and poetic, particular and universal, Farrokhzad’s oeuvre has in recent years become a vital coordinate for a number of contemporary Iranian American...

...Mastoureh Fathi Becoming Visible in Iran: Women in Contemporary Iranian Society , Honarbin-Holliday Mehri . London : Tauris Academic Studies . Pp. xii, 205 . ISBN 978-1-84511-878-5 . Copyright © 2010 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2010...

...Farzaneh Hemmasi Abstract This article explores the media controversy surrounding the victory of Ermia, a veiled female vocalist, on the 2013 expatriate Iranian talent competition Googoosh Music Academy (GMA). A historically and ethnographically informed “ethnotextual” analysis of a selection...

... ). Malaria . Shahbazi Parviz , director ( Le Cannet, France : Dreamlab Films , 2016 ). Lantouri . Dormishian Reza , director ( Tehran : Iranian Independents , 2016 ). Sound and Fury . Seyyedi Houman , director ( Le Cannet, France : Dreamlab Films , 2016...

...Sima Shakhsari In this essay, I argue that during the post-September 11 th “war on terror,” the Iranian homosexual became transferred from the position of the abject to the representable subject in transnational political realms. This shift involves Iranian opposition groups, transnational media...

...Shahla Haeri The Ladies Room ( Afzali Mahnaz ) 2003 , 55 minutes Iranian Journey ( Pachachi Maysoon ) 2003 , 54 minutes Women Like Us ( Sadegh-Vaziri Persheng ) 2003 , 60 minutes Copyright © 2005 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2005...

...Elhum Haghighat From the Shahs to Los Angeles: Three Generations of Iranian Jewish Women between Religion and Culture , Soomekh Saba . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2012 . 224 pages. ISBN 978-1-4384-4383-6 . Copyright © 2014 Association for Middle East Women’s...

...Camron Michael Amin The author examines how the Women’s Party (Hizb-i Zanan) used globalization to signal its departure from the tendency of women’s organizations to prioritize national goals over feminist goals in Iran. In explicitly holding the Iranian government to emerging international...

...Masserat Amir-Ebrahimi Since 1979, Iranian society has been living under a triple set of standards of urf , sharia, and modernity. An important field of superposition and contradiction among these standards is the gender issue and how to control women and their sexuality in the private...

...Farshid Kazemi Liminalities of Gender and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Iranian Photography: Desirous Bodies . Staci Gem Scheiwiller . London : Routledge , 2017 . 240 pages. isbn 9781138201293 . Copyright © 2020 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2020...

... a second set of cassettes, another tape deck that was specifically for the 16 mm film she was making in Iran at the time. Her partner, Sophie Keir, was in Iran and was carrying a 16 mm camera and a tape deck that recorded Millett’s interactions with the press and with Iranian women, et cetera. Millett...

...Leila Sadegh Beigi Abstract Contemporary Iranian women writers contribute to the Iranian literary tradition by writing about women’s roles during the political upheavals leading up to and after the 1979 Revolution. In Simin Daneshvar’s Savushun and Shahrnush Parsipur’s Women without Men...

...Leila Zonouzi Yaghoobi’s robust historical, cultural, and political contextualization of these works makes this book a window into understanding the intricacies of sigheh in the Iranian society. Her analysis offers a fresh appreciation of Iranian modern literature and film. Considering...

...Gi Yeon Koo Abstract This study explores the Korean Wave and fandom in the Islamic Republic of Iran. It follows Iranian women’s consumption of Korean popular culture in the context of their general pop-culture consumption patterns and how they create a fan culture through social media and pop...

...Arielle Gordon Abstract Scholars have long accounted for representations of women in the Iranian Revolution by categorically classifying them as “devout mothers” or “heroic sisters,” embodied respectively in the Shiʾi archetypes of Fatima and Zainab. However, a closer look at images of militant...