Muslim Women Lecture Series: "Sex-in-Change: Configurations of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Iran"
Afsaneh Najmabadi teaches History and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. Her last book, Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005), received the 2005 Joan Kelly Memorial Prize from the American Historical Association. She is an associate editor of the six-volume Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (Leiden: Brill, 2004-2008). Professor Najmabadi's most recent researches have been concerned with the study of the ways in which concepts and practices of sex and sexuality have transformed in Iran, from the late-nineteenth-century to the present-day Iran. She is currently working on Sex in Change: Configurations of Sexuality and Gender in Contemporary Iran, a two-volume project I. Transing and Transpassing Across Sex-Gender Walls in Iran; and II. Genus of Sex: Configurations of Sexuality and Gender in Twentieth-Century Iran.
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