Unveiling Men: Modern Masculinities in Twentieth-Century Iran

by Wendy DeSouza

Book Overview

For years, Iranian academics, writers, and scholars have equated national development and progress with the reform of men's sexual behavior. Modern intellectuals repudiated native sexuality in Iran, just as their European counterparts in France and Germany did, arguing that transforming male identity was essential to the recovery of the nation.

DeSouza offers an alternate narrative of modern Iranian masculinity as an attempt to redraw social...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815636032
• ISBN13: 9780815636038
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.6" x 9.0"