Gender, sexuality, and diaspora / Fataneh Farahani
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- 7499214
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- Farahani, Fataneh, author
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- New York, NY : Routledge, 2018
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- 9781134458738 ((electronic bk.))
- 1134458738 ((electronic bk.))
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- 9780415855686
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- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Prologue: A Diasporic Tale; 1 Theoretical Platform and Methodological Concerns: An Introduction; Foucault and Diasporic Sexualities; Islamicated Discourses on Women's Sexualities; A Postcolonial Approach; Diaspora and Diasporic Space; Self-Reflexivity and Voice; Women of This Book; A Profile of the Iranian Community in Sweden; Organisation Outlook; 2 Sexing Diaspora: (Un)desirable Femininity on the Move; Public Kiss; Public Kiss and Parenting; Sexuality and Intimacy in Diasporic Space; Diasporic Space: A Heterotopic Space
- Feeling Less as a Woman: Shifting Heterosexual DramaturgyI Cannot Make Love in Swedish!; Stereotypes on Watch; Becoming Swedish: Turning to a Civilised and Liberated Subject; Sexing Displacements: "What If I Had Stayed?"; Being an Exception or Being In-Between; Selective Gendered Cut and Paste; Recapitulation; 3 Diasporic (Un)Veiling: Intersecting and Conflicting Meanings, Histories, and Power Relations; To Be Veiled or Unveiled; Hejāb; A Historical Probe; The Veil and Orientalism; The Veil in the Iranian Political Context; Veiling the Mannequins; The Absent Presence: The Non-Existent Veil
- Cotton and Fire: Veiling and Gender SegregationVeiled Urban-Planning; Veiled Language and Camouflaged Tactics; Veil as a Signifier of Dignified Mature Femininity; Blocking the Unwanted Masculine Gaze: Protecting Veil; A Veiled Woman: A Pearl Inside a Shell; The Veil: A Concern for Manly Honour; Recapitulation; 4 Diasporic Narratives of Marriage and Separation; The Malleable Institution of Marriage; An Overdue Marriage; Marriage (f)or Love: Unique and Infinite Expectations; Marriage (f)or Politics: Political Marriage; Marriage (f)or Leaving Iran: Mail Arranged Marriage
- Divorce, Violence, and Labelling WomenMigration and Divorce; The Impact of Islamic Law: Divorce Iranian Style; Violence Within Marriage; Labelling Women's Sexual (Dis)satisfaction; Recapitulation; 5 Let's Talk About Sex: Sexual (Mis)communication and Performative Virginity; Masking Sexuality in Persian Daily Discourses; Lack of Formal and Informal Sexual Education; Menstruation and Muteness; Sexually Inexperienced and Sexually Ignorant; Narrating Premarital Sex: A Before and After Split; Deconstructing Virginity in the Western Context; Social Compulsion for Female Virginity in Islam
- First Lessons on the Preservation of the HymenPassing the Test: Virginity Examinations; Just Like a Virgin: Women's Tactics for Artificial Virginity; Performative Virginity; Recapitulation; An Epilogue: Inside Looking Out/Outside Looking In; Index
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