Table of Contents

Introduction Part I. Beauty, Love, and Sexuality 1. Early Qajar 2. Nineteenth-Century Transformations Part II. Cultural Labor of Sexuality and Gender 3. The Eclipse of the (Fe)Male Sun 4. Vatan, the Beloved; Vatan, the Mother 5. Women's Veil and Unveil 6. The Tragedy of Romantic Marriage 7. Crafting an Educated Wife and Mother 8. Women or Wives of the Nation? Epilogue: Feminism and Its Burden of Birth Notes Glossary

About the Author

Afsaneh Najmabadi, Professor of History and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University, is author of The Story of the Daughters of Quchan: Gender and National Memory in Iranian History (1998), among other books.

Reviews

"This is an extraordinary book. It rereads the story of Iranian modernity through the lens of gender and sexuality in ways that no other scholars have done." - Joan W. Scott, author of Gender and the Politics of History"