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Professing selves : transsexuality and same-sex desire in contemporary Iran

Title
Professing selves : transsexuality and same-sex desire in contemporary Iran / Afsaneh Najmabadi.
ISBN
9780822355434 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822355434 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822355571 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822355574 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Publication
Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2014.
Copyright Notice Date
©2014.
Physical Description
xii, 418 pages : illustrations, portraits (some color) ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 23, 2014
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-388) and index.
Contents
Entering the scene
"Before" transsexuality
Murderous passions, deviant insanities
"Around" 1979 : gay Tehran?
Verdicts of science, rulings of faith
Changing the terms : playing "Snakes and ladders" with the state
Living patterns, styles of cognition
Professing selves : sexual/gender proficiencies.
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