Professing Selves : Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran /
The Islamic Republic of Iran permits, and even partially subsidizes, sex reassignment surgery. Based on historical and ethnographic research, Afsaneh Najmabadi examines what transsexuality means in postrevolutionary Iran.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.


