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Liminalities of gender and sexuality in nineteenth-century Iranian photography : desirous bodies

Title
  1. Liminalities of gender and sexuality in nineteenth-century Iranian photography : desirous bodies / Staci Gem Scheiwiller.
Published by
  1. New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.
  2. ©2017
Author
  1. Scheiwiller, Staci Gem.

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Description
  1. xix, 219 pages; 26 cm.
Series statement
  1. Routledge history of photography
Uniform title
  1. Routledge history of photography.
Subject
  1. Sex customs
  2. Photography
  3. Iran
  4. Photography, Erotic
  5. Qajar Dynasty (Iran)
  6. 1794-1925
  7. Iran > Social life and customs > 19th century
  8. Sex customs > Iran > History > 19th century
  9. History
  10. Photography, Erotic > History > 19th century
  11. Iran > History > Qajar dynasty, 1794-1925
  12. Manners and customs
  13. Photography > Iran > History > 19th century
Genre/Form
  1. History.
Contents
  1. Introduction : locations of desire -- A language of its own : depictions of women in Iranian art before and shortly after the arrival of photography -- Corporeal politics : constructions of gender and power in the royal Nasiri photograph albums and the photography of the Constitutional Revolution (1905-11) -- Collecting women -- The erotic spaces of Qajar photography -- For the male gaze : depictions of masculinity and sexuality -- Enslaved bodies of desire : photographs of black African slaves -- Conclusion : the inevitable witness.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.