Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran (Experimental Futures)
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| Rating | : | 4.94 (808 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0822355574 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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Outstanding study of gender and sexuality in Iran Afsaneh Najmabadi's pathbreaking studies of gender and sexuality in Iran are the most important studies of their kind in academia. They provide an important sociological background for those interested in the Middle East.. "Five Stars" according to Sahika Yuksel. it is a hidden area. It is hard learn how and what is happening
Najmabadi argues that this collaboration among medical authorities, specialized clerics, and state officials—which made transsexuality a legally tolerated, if not exactly celebrated, category of being—grew out of Iran's particular experience of Islamicized modernity. In Professing Selves, Afsaneh Najmabadi explores the meaning of transsexuality in contemporary Iran. Combining historical and ethnographic research, she describes how, in the postrevolutionary era, the domains of law, psychology and psychiatry, Islamic jurisprudence, and biomedicine became invested in distinguishing between the acceptable "true" transsexual and other categories of identification, notably the "true" homosexual, an unacceptable category of existence in Iran. Since the mid-1980s, the Islamic Republic of Iran has permitted, and partially subsidized, sex reassignment surgery. Paradoxically, state regulation has produced new spaces for non-normative living in Iran, since determining who is genuinely "trans" depends largely on the stories that people choose to tell, on the selves that they profess.
She works refreshingly at the level of real lives, jurists, and psychiatrists."—Michael M. "Professing Selves is one of the best recent works on contemporary Iran. Arguing that transsexuals' legal and psychiatric negotiations reveal more general processes of proceduralism, negotiation of legal categories, and state formation, Afsaneh Najmabadi challenges the lumping of transsexuals and homosexuals as identical human rights issues, and argues that poorly targeted universalistic campaigns can