...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 . 106  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES 5:2...

...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...

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

...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...

...Hamideh Dorzadeh [email protected] Iranian Romance in the Digital Age: From Arranged Marriage to White Marriage Janet Afary and Jesilyn Faust , eds. London : Tauris , 2021 249 pages. isbn 9780755639571 . Copyright © 2024 by the Association for Middle...

...Wazhmah Osman; Narges Bajoghli Abstract This article analyzes the Afghan and Iranian feminist uprisings of the early 2020s spurred by #MahsaAmini’s death and the return of the Taliban, and their predecessors, #MyRedLine and #MyStealthyFreedom. It assesses why these movements, which gained...

...Gülriz Şen [email protected] Creating the Modern Iranian Woman: Popular Culture between Two Revolutions . Liora Hendelman-Baavur . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2021 . ix + 330 pages. isbn 9781108726931 . Copyright © 2024 by the Association for Middle East Women’s...

... Social Distancing and Relationships in Early Iranian COVID-19 Experiences CLAUDIA YAGHOOBI A B S T R A C T Two months after the initial announcement of COVID-19, the World Health Organization referred to the pathogen as a pandemic, and by March 2020 large gatherings were canceled as new social...

...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...

...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...

...Kaveh Bassiri Overall, these festival films convey how Iranian daughters, wives, and lovers are contentious sites for the society’s discourse on modernity. Only by accepting the newly empowered woman can Iran embrace twenty-first-century configurations of family and society. The film noir...

...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...

... Allegories: Post-revolutionary Iranian Cinema (2008) and #iranelection: Hashtag Solidarity and the Transformation of Online Life (2015), as well as of Whisper Tapes , and her work on the global culture of memes and selfies has been featured at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, New York’s Museum...

...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...