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TSQ (2017) 4 (3-4): 654–661.
Published: 01 November 2017
... of sublimation allows us to read a fantasy of fatality as evidence of transsexual inspiration in the materials gathered by Afsaneh Najmabadi's Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran (2014). Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Jean Laplanche sublimation...
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TSQ (2015) 2 (1): 179–184.
Published: 01 February 2015
...Leila Hudson Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran Najmabadi Afsaneh Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2014 . vii + 450 pp . Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Under guise of an ethnography of transsexuality in contemporary...
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TSQ (2014) 1 (1-2): 115–118.
Published: 01 May 2014
... of social acceptance, those who express a purportedly deviant sexual desire are highly stigmatized, particularly if they engage in what is perceived as same-sex intercourse. It is worth noting that male and female same-sex desires and practices have different historical genealogies in Islam ( Najmabadi 2011...
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TSQ (2019) 6 (1): 80–102.
Published: 01 February 2019
... (Najmabadi 2008 : 24; Kariminia 2010 : 50). Sex-change surgery is the translation of the Persian amal-e-taghir-e-jinsiyat , which is used in Iran to refer to the surgical procedures of mastectomy and hysterectomy in female-to-male cases and removal of the testicles and penis in male-to-female cases...
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TSQ (2023) 10 (1): 10–15.
Published: 01 February 2023
... Najmabadi ( 2014 : 292) terms “self-in-conduct,” in which the notion of selfhood is premised on the individual's sense of being in the world through social and cultural conduct. To be sure, the lines of inquiry opened by With Respect to Sex have contributed to recent anthropological and historical...
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TSQ (2020) 7 (1): 37–55.
Published: 01 February 2020
... 2008b ; Stryker and Currah 2014 ; Najmabadi 2014 ). However, since its popularization in the early 1990s and subsequent, intensified circulation in activist, policy, and academic knowledge venues, transgender has been constantly perceived and remains disseminated as an umbrella term that indexes...
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TSQ (2018) 5 (2): 164–173.
Published: 01 May 2018
... traditions and their varied integration into health care and healing practices (Najmabadi 2013 ); technical limitations of capacity reflecting uneven distributions of material and knowledge resources; and the frictive travel of categories such as “transsexual” and “transgender” and the protocols...
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TSQ (2016) 3 (1-2): 120–136.
Published: 01 May 2016
... ways (e.g., Najmabadi 2013 ; Hsu 2013 ; Cabral and Viturro 2006 ). Attending to these particularities proves critical in elaborating accounts of how trans health takes shape and travels, and how it may—much like obstetric care—not only engage but also produce differential distributions of life...
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TSQ (2021) 8 (3): 310–326.
Published: 01 August 2021
... ethnographic research on contemporary practice of transsexuality in Iran, Afsaneh Najmabadi ( 2014 ) recorded the experience of individuals who (re)integrated into the heterosexually binarized familial time and space through the institutionalized practice of transsexuality. Transsexuality in this case is less...
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TSQ (2019) 6 (3): 283–296.
Published: 01 August 2019
... (that touches on similar points) see DeVun and Tortorici ( 2018 ), and their citation of the critique by Evan Towle and Lynn Morgan ( 2002 ). The Transgender Studies Reader 2 has several pieces that address religion and reflects the more recent development of the field. In this regard, Afsaneh Najmabadi's...
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TSQ (2019) 6 (3): 297–314.
Published: 01 August 2019
...-hits-pakistan-lal-shahbaz-qalandar-sufi-shrine-170216144747128.html . Babayan Kathryn , and Najmabadi Afsaneh , eds. 2008 . Islamicate Sexualities: Translations across Temporal Geographies of Desire . Cambridge, MA : Center for Middle Eastern Studies of Harvard University . Cafe...
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TSQ (2014) 1 (1-2): 285–297.
Published: 01 May 2014
... (Around 1979)” ( TSR2 ), Afsaneh Najmabadi offers a tentative mapping of what she terms “non-heteronormative Tehran” in the 1970s (380). Aizura considers the political and affective economies of travel for sex reassignment in “The Romance of the Amazing Scalpel: ‘Race,’ Labor, and Affect in Thai Gender...
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TSQ (2018) 5 (4): 518–539.
Published: 01 November 2018
... for our framing of this issue. “Timely Matters” showcases the methodologically, conceptually, and geopolitically diverse work of five scholars—Mary Weismantel, Deborah A. Miranda, Karma Lochrie, Robert Hill, and Afsaneh Najmabadi—as they engage in cross-temporal analyses that resist ahistorical...
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TSQ (2018) 5 (3): 355–377.
Published: 01 August 2018
...” played an important role in defining the modern self. Following Aren Aizura ( 2011 ) and other scholars in transgender studies (Najmabadi 2014), I deploy the self as an analytical term that highlights a distinctive kind of personhood, one centered on aligning an individual's biography and embodiment...
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TSQ (2017) 4 (3-4): 326–357.
Published: 01 November 2017
... Psychoanalytic Association (IPA), and the state of a psychoanalytic discourse that pathologizes, erases, or precludes transpeople. Dina Al-Kassim offers an important discussion of Afsaneh Najmabadi's Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran . Al-Kassim's focus on the Middle...
