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Performing Variant Selves over Time Deciphering Trans and Same-Sex-Desiring Subjectivities in Contemporary Iran

Performing Variant Selves over Time Deciphering Trans and Same-Sex-Desiring Subjectivities in... PERFORMING VARIANT SELVES OVER TIME Deciphering Trans and Same-Sex-Desiring Subjectivities in Contemporary Iran Roshanak Kheshti Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran Afsaneh Najmabadi Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013. 432 pp. This historical and ethnographic study comes at a moment in which two popular American serials feature transgender characters, a time of growing attention to transgender rights and experiences in the American public sphere. Yet it is also a time in which Iran continues to be an American foreign policy focus with the conclusion of nuclear talks and the loosening of sanctions while at the same time being represented in popular American and Canadian media as a nation ironically at the forefront of both transgender rights and homosexual oppression. Add to this the firm, hegemonic hold of Islamophobia and its attendant fetishisms and orientalist fascinations with all things Muslim, and you have a context primed for the publication of this book. Despite the allure of potential audiences/markets born of these current historical circumstances, however, Najmabadi does not kowtow to a desire for representations of trans Iran by rendering ethnographically stable subjects. On the contrary, she explores a shape-shifting, subjective play, what she calls "the art http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies Duke University Press

Performing Variant Selves over Time Deciphering Trans and Same-Sex-Desiring Subjectivities in Contemporary Iran

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Duke University Press
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1064-2684
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1527-9375
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10.1215/10642684-3123773
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PERFORMING VARIANT SELVES OVER TIME Deciphering Trans and Same-Sex-Desiring Subjectivities in Contemporary Iran Roshanak Kheshti Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran Afsaneh Najmabadi Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013. 432 pp. This historical and ethnographic study comes at a moment in which two popular American serials feature transgender characters, a time of growing attention to transgender rights and experiences in the American public sphere. Yet it is also a time in which Iran continues to be an American foreign policy focus with the conclusion of nuclear talks and the loosening of sanctions while at the same time being represented in popular American and Canadian media as a nation ironically at the forefront of both transgender rights and homosexual oppression. Add to this the firm, hegemonic hold of Islamophobia and its attendant fetishisms and orientalist fascinations with all things Muslim, and you have a context primed for the publication of this book. Despite the allure of potential audiences/markets born of these current historical circumstances, however, Najmabadi does not kowtow to a desire for representations of trans Iran by rendering ethnographically stable subjects. On the contrary, she explores a shape-shifting, subjective play, what she calls "the art

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GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay StudiesDuke University Press

Published: Jan 1, 2015

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