Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity

In this process modern sensibilities projected heterosexual desires through the depiction of woman as the object of sexual longing and transformed same-sex desires into an abject practice. [...] modernity abandoned the male beloved to a time and place that were different from now.

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Published in:Journal of the History of Sexuality 2010, Vol.19 (3), p.587-590
Main Authors: Papan-Matin, Firoozeh, Najmabadi, Afsaneh
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Beards & mustaches
Identity
Iran
Islam
Modernity
Sexuality
Women
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Summary:In this process modern sensibilities projected heterosexual desires through the depiction of woman as the object of sexual longing and transformed same-sex desires into an abject practice. [...] modernity abandoned the male beloved to a time and place that were different from now.
ISSN:1043-4070
1535-3605
1535-3605
DOI:10.1353/sex.2010.0008