Afsaneh Najmabadi: 1 book
Professing Selves
Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Since the mid-1980s, the Islamic Republic of Iran has permitted, and partially subsidized, sex reassignment surgery. In Professing Selves, Afsaneh Najmabadi explores the meaning of transsexuality in contemporary Iran. Combining historical and ethnographic research, she describes how, in the postrevolutionary...
