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According to Wikipedia, Afsaneh Najmabadi is an Iranian-born American historian, gender theorist, archivist, and educator. She is the Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University.

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Women with mustaches and men without beards: gender and sexual anxieties of Iranian modernity (2005) (267)
Hazards of Modernity and Morality: Women, State and Ideology in Contemporary Iran (1991) (142)
The Erotic Vaṭan [Homeland] as Beloved and Mother: To Love, To Possess, and To Protect (1997) (118)
Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran (2013) (103)
Veiled Discourse- Unveiled Bodies (1993) (94)
Chapter 3. Crafting an Educated Housewife in Iran (1998) (82)
(Un)Veiling Feminism (2000) (73)
Transing and Transpassing across Sex-Gender Walls in Iran (2008) (63)
Islamicate Sexualities: Translations across Temporal Geographies of Desire (2008) (62)
The Story of the Daughters of Quchan: Gender and National Memory in Iranian History (1998) (50)
Zulaykha and Yusuf: Whose “Best Story”? (1997) (39)
Professing Selves (2020) (38)
Gender and Secularism of Modernity: How Can a Muslim Woman Be French? (2006) (37)
Zanha‐yi Millat: women or wives of the nation? (1993) (36)
Land reform and social change in Iran (1987) (36)
Beyond the Americas: Are Gender and Sexuality Useful Categories of Analysis? (2006) (34)
Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (2007) (31)
Verdicts of Science, Rulings of Faith: Transgender/Sexuality in Contemporary Iran (2014) (27)
Encyclopedia of women & Islamic cultures (2003) (27)
Labor Unions and Autocracy in Iran (1985) (22)
THE MORNING AFTER: TRAVAIL OF SEXUALITY AND LOVE IN MODERN IRAN (2004) (22)
Mapping Transformations of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Modern Iran (2005) (20)
Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Historiography of Modern Iran (2009) (19)
Women's autobiographies in contemporary Iran (1990) (15)
GENUS OF SEX OR THE SEXING OF JINS (2013) (12)
Gendered transformations: beauty, love, and sexuality in Qajar Iran (2001) (10)
Ethosuximide in the treatment of epilepsy. Preliminary report. (1962) (9)
“Is our name remembered?”: Writing the history of Iranian constitutionalism as if women and gender mattered (1996) (8)
Reading—and enjoying—“wiles of women” stories as a feminist (1999) (8)
Teaching and Research in Unavailable Intersections (1997) (8)
Interview with Gayatri Spivak (1991) (6)
Reading Transsexuality in "Gay" Tehran (Around 1979) (2013) (5)
Verdicts of Science, Rulings of Faith (2013) (4)
Is Another Language Possible (2012) (4)
From Supplementarity to Parasitism? (2004) (4)
Clinical evaluation of 1-methyl-5,5-phenyl-ethyl-hydantoin in the treatment of epilepsy. (1961) (4)
Family, body, sexuality and health (2006) (3)
Comparative Efficacy of Bispectral Index Monitoring and Clinical Assessment in The Recovery of Patients Undergoing Open Renal Surgery: A Randomized, Double-Blind Study (2016) (2)
Economics, education, mobility and space (2007) (2)
Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran. A Digital Archive and Website Project of the History Department and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University; and the Harvard College Library (2009) (1)
Family, law and politics (2005) (1)
Lois Beck and Guity Nashat, eds.Women in Iran from 1800 to the Islamic Republic (2007) (1)
Farzaneh Milani. Veils and Words: The Emerging Voices of Iranian Women Writers. (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East.) Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press. 1992. Pp. xix, 295. Cloth $34.95, paper $16.95 (1993) (1)
Women in Iran from 1800 to the Islamic Republic (review) (2007) (1)
Burying the Beloved: Marriage, Realism, and Reform in Modern Iran (2015) (1)
Reviews (2006) (1)
Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran Digital Archive and Website: What Could Writing History Look Like in a Digital Age? (2013) (1)
Epilogue: Feminism and Its Burden of Birth (2019) (0)
State-building, Science and Religion: Sexuality in Iran (2017) (0)
CHAPTER ONE. (Un)veiling feminism (2020) (0)
4. Vatan, the Beloved;Vatan, the Mother (2019) (0)
Gendered Transformations: Beauty, Love, and Sexuality in (2016) (0)
Familial Undercurrents (2022) (0)
Kenneth M. Cuno. Modernizing Marriage: Family, Ideology, and Law in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Egypt. (2016) (0)
Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Writing History in the Middle East: Interview with Afsaneh Najmabadi (2020) (0)
Acknowledgement to reviewers (2006) (0)
7. Crafting an Educated Wife and Mother (2019) (0)
“Around” 1979: Gay Tehran? (2013) (0)
Reviews of books: Near East (1993) (0)
1. Early Qajar (2019) (0)
Writing History as if Women and Gender Mattered (1999) (0)
Introduction to “the uses of guile: literary and historical moments” (1999) (0)
Response (2016) (0)
Living Patterns, Narrative Styles (2013) (0)
The book captures a spirit of dialogue among Muslims that should give the Western reader a more balanced understanding of contemporary Islam (2016) (0)
Practices, Interpretations And Representations (2007) (0)
2. Nineteenth-Century Transformations (2019) (0)
The Elementary Structures of Political LIfe: Rural Development in Pahlavi Iran.Grace E. Goodell (1988) (0)
Daughter of Persia: A Woman’s Journey From Her Father’s Harem Through the Islamic Revolution , by Farmaian Sattareh Farman with Munker Dona. 404 pages, photographs, index. New York: Crown Publishers, 1992. $22 (Cloth) ISBN 0-517-58697-5 (1992) (0)
Entering the Scene (2013) (0)
Being Modern in Iran by Fariba Adelkhah (2000) (0)
Methodologies, paradigms and sources (2003) (0)
Contents of Volume 27, 1995 (1995) (0)
3. The Eclipse of the (Fe)Male Sun (2019) (0)
THE PHOTOGRAPH, THE DRESS, AND THE CONJUGALIZATION OF THE FAMILY (2021) (0)
Women’s Worlds in Qajar Iran Digital Archive and Website: A Report (2016) (0)
La formación de un ama de casa culta en Irán (2002) (0)
Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet. Frontier Fictions: Shaping the Iranian Nation 1804–1946. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. 304 pp., $39.50 (cl.). (2002) (0)
Changing the Terms: Playing “Snakes and Ladders” with the State (2013) (0)
Murderous Passions, Deviant Insanities (2013) (0)
6. The Tragedy of Romantic Marriage (2019) (0)
Professing Selves: Sexual/Gender Proficiencies (2013) (0)
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations (2018) (0)
What Can We Learn From Transsexuality in Iran (2016) (0)
Book Forum (2016) (0)
A new treatment for seborrhea capitis in infants and children. (1960) (0)
“Making (Up) an Archive: What Could Writing History Look Like in a Digital Age?” (2013) (0)

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The Story of the Daughters of Quchan

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