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Familial Undercurrents - Afsaneh Najmabadi

Familial Undercurrents

Untold Stories of Love and Marriage in Modern Iran
Buch | Hardcover
184 Seiten
2022
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-1515-4 (ISBN)
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Not long after her father died, Afsaneh Najmabadi discovered that her father had a secret second family and that she had a sister she never knew about. In Familial Undercurrents, Najmabadi uncovers her family’s complex experiences of polygamous marriage to tell a larger story of the transformations of notions of love, marriage, and family life in mid-twentieth-century Iran. She traces how the idea of “marrying for love” and the desire for companionate, monogamous marriage acquired dominance in Tehran’s emerging urban middle class. Considering the role played in that process by late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century romance novels, reformist newspapers, plays, and other literature, Najmabadi outlines the rituals and objects---such as wedding outfits, letter writing, and family portraits---that came to characterize the ideal companionate marriage. She reveals how in the course of one generation men’s polygamy had evolved from an acceptable open practice to a taboo best kept secret. At the same time, she chronicles the urban transformations of Tehran and how its architecture and neighborhood social networks both influenced and became emblematic of the myriad forms of modern Iranian family life.

Afsaneh Najmabadi is Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University and author of Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran, also published by Duke University Press, and Women with Mustaches and Men Without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity.

Cast of Characters  ix
Preface  xi
Acknowledgments  xvii
In Lieu of an Introduction  1
1. Marrying for Love  13
2. Objects: Letters, Wedding Clothes, and Photographs  41
3. Meanings of Marriage: Forming a Family or Providing Sexual Pleasure  75
4. Urban Transformations  111
Epilogue: Naming Marriage, Naming Kin  127
Notes  131
Bibliography  149
Index  155

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 51 illustrations
Verlagsort North Carolina
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 408 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-4780-1515-2 / 1478015152
ISBN-13 978-1-4780-1515-4 / 9781478015154
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