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

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

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AnthropologyGeneral Gender StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3030128334
ISBN13: 9783030128333
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Aug 8 2020
Pages: 233
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.53 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

Drawing on ethnographic encounters with self-identified gay men in Iran, this book explores the construction, enactment, and veiling and unveiling of gay identity and same-sex desire in the capital city of Tehran. The research draws on diverse interpretive, historical, online and empirical sources in order to present critical and nuanced insights into the politics of recognition and representation and the constitution of same-sex desire under the specific conditions of Iranian modernity. As it engages with accounts of the persecuted Iranian gay male subject as a victim of the barbarism of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the book addresses interpretive questions of sexuality governance in transnational contexts and attends to issues of human rights frameworks in weighing social justice and political claims made by and on behalf of sexual and gender minorities. The book thus combines empirical data with a critical consideration of the politics of same-sex desire for Iranian gay men.

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