Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards Noelle Stevenson short interviews with friends and

short interviews with friends and collaborators and newly commissioned texts from a wide range of contributors including John Maybury

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Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards Noelle Stevenson short interviews with friends andGender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity Drawing from a rich array of visual and literary material from nineteenth century Iran, this groundbreaking book rereads and rewrites the history of Iranian modernity through the lens of gender and sexuality. Peeling away notions of a rigid pre modern Islamic gender system, Afsaneh Najmabadi provides a compelling demonstration of the centrality of gender and sexuality to the shaping of modern culture