Iranian Masculinities: Gender and Sexuality in Late Qajar and Early Pahlavi Iran

Presenter(s)

Sivan Balslev

Date

March 3, 2023

The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies

presents

Iranian Studies Virtual Book Launch
featuring

Iranian Masculinities: Gender and Sexuality in Late Qajar and Early Pahlavi Iran

 

by Dr. Sivan Balslev

Abstract:

Iranian Masculinities: Gender and Sexuality in Late Qajar and Early Pahlavi Iran offers a comprehensive historical study of masculinity in Iran. It shows how men under the reign of Reza Shah dressed, acted, spoke, and thought differently from their late Qajar period
counterparts.