Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran (Experimental Futures)
Afsaneh Najmabadi’s Professing Selves explores transsexuality and same-sex desire in contemporary Iran. Situated at the intersection of gender studies, sexuality studies, and Iranian studies, the book considers how identities and desires are understood, expressed, and situated within a changing cultural and social context.
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Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran examines questions of gender and sexuality in the context of contemporary Iran.
Written by Afsaneh Najmabadi, the book focuses on transsexuality and same-sex desire as related but distinct subjects of inquiry.
Its title points to the ways personal identity, social meaning, and self-expression intersect around sex and gender.
Published as part of the Experimental Futures series, this work offers a focused contribution to scholarship on gender, sexuality, and Iranian studies.
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