The Suad Joseph Lecture Series in Iranian Studies:
“Sex-in-Change: Configurations
of Sexuality and Gender in
Contemporary Iran”
A Public Lecture By: Dr. Afsaneh Najmabadi
The Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and of Studies of
Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University
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 currently working on Sex in Change: Configurations of Sexuality and Gender in Contemporary Iran, and on Genus of Sex: How Jins Became Sex in Iran. Prof. Najmabadi and a team of Qajar historians received a NEH grant to develop a comprehensive digital archive and website that will preserve, link, and render accessible primary source materials related to the social and cultural history of women’s worlds during the reign of the Qajar dynasty (1785 – 1925) in Iran.
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