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Professing Selves : Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran /
Since the mid-1980s, the Islamic Republic of Iran has permitted, and partially subsidized, sex reassignment surgery. In Professing Selves, Afsaneh Najmabadi explores the meaning of transsexuality in contemporary Iran. Combining historical and ethnographic research, she describes how, in the postrevo...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Experimental futures : technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices : 20
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 01. Entering the Scene
- 02. "Before" Transsexuality
- 03. Murderous Passions, Deviant Insanities
- 04. "Around" 1979
- 05. Verdicts of Science, Rulings of Faith
- 06. Changing the Terms
- 07. Living Patterns, Narrative Styles
- 08. Professing Selves
- Glossary of Persian Terms and Acronyms
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index