Female Bodies and Sexuality in Iran and the Search for Defiance

• Main Author: Sharifi, Nafiseh (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, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Middle East-Politics and government.; Sociology.; Gender identity-Religious aspects.; Sexual behavior.; Sexual psychology.; World politics.; Religion and sociology.; Middle Eastern Politics.; Gender Studies.; Religion and Gender.; Sexual Behavior.; Political History.; Religion and Society.

This book uses storytelling as an analytical tool for following wider social attitude changes towards sex and female sexuality in Iran. Women born in 1950s Iran grew up during the peak of secularization and modernization, whereas those born in the 1980s were raised under the much stricter rules of t...