Passionate Uprisings: Iran's Sexual Revolution

by Pardis Mahdavi

Book Overview

There is perhaps no place in the world today where the stakes of partying and having sex are higher than in present-day Iran. Drinking and dancing can lead to arrest by the morality police and a punishment of up to 70 lashes. Consequences for sex outside of marriage can be even more severe-up to 84 lashes, or even public execution.

But even under the threat of such harsh punishment, a sexual revolution is taking place. Iranian youth continually...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804758565
• ISBN13: 9780804758567
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"