Gay Life Stories Same-Sex Desires in Post-Revolutionary Iran /

• Main Author: Kjaran, Jón Ingvar (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Gender identity.; Cultural studies.; Queer theory.; Ethnography.; Men.; Ethnology-Middle East .; Gender and Sexuality.; Cultural Studies.; Queer Theory.; Men's Studies.; Middle Eastern Culture.

"Jón Ingvar Kjaran examines the complicated embodied experiences of gay-identifying men in Iran, focusing on their agency and the ways in which they carve out meaning in their lives. This is no easy task, since these men must resist both the official homophobic discourses of the state and the...