Afsaneh Najmabadi: Professing Selves
Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran. USA 2013, 432 pp., brochure, € 49.95Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas. Duke University PressSince the mid-1980s, Iran has permitted, and partially subsidized, sex reassignment surgery. In »Professing Selves«, the author 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 ...
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