{"product_id":"professing-selves-transsexuality-and-same-sex-desire-in-contemporary-iran-9780822355571","title":"Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran","description":"Since the mid-1980s, the Islamic Republic of Iran has permitted, and partially subsidized, sex reassignment surgery. In \u003ci\u003eProfessing Selves\u003c\/i\u003e, Afsaneh Najmabadi explores the meaning of transsexuality in contemporary Iran. Combining historical and ethnographic research, she describes how, in the postrevolutionary era, the domains of law, psychology and psychiatry, Islamic jurisprudence, and biomedicine became invested in distinguishing between the acceptable \"true\" transsexual and other categories of identification, notably the \"true\" homosexual, an unacceptable category of existence in Iran. Najmabadi argues that this collaboration among medical authorities, specialized clerics, and state officials-which made transsexuality a legally tolerated, if not exactly celebrated, category of being-grew out of Iran's particular experience of Islamicized modernity. Paradoxically, state regulation has produced new spaces for non-normative living in Iran, since determining who is genuinely \"trans\" depends largely on the stories that people choose to tell, on the selves that they profess.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Afsaneh Najmabadi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/16\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 5.90w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822355571\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfsaneh Najmabadi is the Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eWomen with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Story of the Daughters of Quchan: Gender and National Memory in Iranian History\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a coeditor (with Kathryn Babayan) of \u003ci\u003eIslamicate Sexualities: Translations across Temporal Geographies of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45073520033907,"sku":"9780822355571","price":54.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_1d1076da-07e2-40bb-8bf7-9974a4ea4332.jpg?v=1780703344","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/professing-selves-transsexuality-and-same-sex-desire-in-contemporary-iran-9780822355571","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}