Janet Afary
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Author, feminist activist and researcher of history, religious studies and women studies.
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Janet Afary is an author, feminist activist and researcher of history, religious studies and women studies. She is a professor and the Mellichamp Chair in Global Religion and Modernity at the University of California, Santa Barbara .
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- Sexual Politics in Modern Iran (2009) (172)
- The Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1906-1911: Grassroots Democracy, Social Democracy, and the Origins of Feminism (1998) (131)
- Foucault and the Iranian Revolution (2005) (94)
- Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism (2005) (79)
- Sexual Politics in Modern Iran: Contents (2009) (61)
- On the Origins of Feminism in Early 20th-Century Iran (2010) (51)
- The war against feminism in the name of the Almighty: making sense of gender and Muslim fundamentalism. (1997) (50)
- The Human Rights of Middle Eastern & Muslim Women: A Project for the 21st Century (2004) (23)
- Love in the Middle East: The contradictions of romance in the Facebook World (2016) (14)
- The contentious historiography of the Gilan republic in Iran: a critical exploration (1995) (11)
- Shi'i Narratives of Karbala and Christian Rites of Penance: Michel Foucault and the Culture of the Iranian Revolution, 1978-1979 (2003) (11)
- Civil Liberties and the Making of Iran's First Constitution (2005) (10)
- Digital romance: the sources of online love in the Muslim world (2017) (9)
- The Sexual Economy of the Islamic Republic (2009) (7)
- Peasant Rebellions of the Caspian Region during the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1906–1909 (1991) (7)
- Portraits of two Islamist women: Escape from freedom or from tradition? (2001) (6)
- Seeking a Feminist Politics for the Middle East after September 11 (2004) (6)
- The place of Shi’i clerics in the first Iranian constitution (2013) (5)
- Critical theory, authoritarianism, and the politics of lipstick from the Weimar Republic to the contemporary Middle East (2018) (5)
- Steering between Scylla and Charybdis: Shifting Gender Roles in Twentieth Century (2016) (5)
- Pregnancy and Miscarriage in Qatar (2020) (5)
- Spoils of War: Women of Color, Cultures, and Revolutions (1997) (4)
- Grassroots democracy and social democracy in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1906-1911. (Volumes I and II). (1991) (3)
- Feminism, Peace, and War (2006) (3)
- Sexual Politics in Modern Iran: Map of Iran (2009) (3)
- The Groupe d ’ information sur les prisons : The voice of prisoners ? (2007) (2)
- Charand-o Parand: Revolutionary Satire from Iran, 1907-1909 (2016) (2)
- Mollā Nasreddin and the creative Cauldron of Transcaucasia (2019) (2)
- Iranian Romance in the Digital Age (2021) (2)
- Foucault, Rodinson and the Iranian Revolution: Revisiting a Classic Debate between Post-Structuralist Philosophy and Marxist Sociology (2007) (1)
- Sexual Politics in Modern Iran: Conclusion: Toward a new Muslim-Iranian sexuality for the twenty-first century (2009) (1)
- ARMENIAN SOCIAL DEMOCRATS, THE DEMOCRAT PARTY OF IRAN, ANDIRAN-I NAW: A secret camaraderie (2004) (1)
- BOOK REVIEW: AFKHAMI, GHOLAM REZA. ED.?MAHNAZ AFKHAMI: A MEMOIR?:JAME'EH, DOWLAT, VA JONBESH-I ZANUN-E IRAN, 1357-1342: MOSAHEBEH BA MAHNAZ AFKHAMI [WOMEN, STATE, AND SOCIETY IN IRAN 1963-1978: AN INTERVIEW WITH MAHNAZ AFKHAMI]. Bethesda: Foundation for Iranian Studies, 2003. (2005) (1)
- "Mahnaz Afkhami: A Memoir" (2005) (1)
- The " other " Orientalism (2009) (1)
- Complicating Patriarchy: Gender Beliefs of Muslim Facebook Users in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia (2022) (1)
- Iran’s 1907 constitution and its sources: a critical comparison (2018) (1)
- Sexual Politics in Modern Iran: Suffrage, marriage reforms, and the threat of female sexuality (2009) (0)
- Sexual Politics in Modern Iran: The Islamic Revolution, its sexual economy, and the Left (2009) (0)
- Edward G. Browne, The Persian Revolution, 1905–1909 , new edition, ed. Abbas Amanat (Washington, D.C.: Mage Publishers, 1995). Pp. 560. (1997) (0)
- COMMENT: Some Reflections on Third World Feminist Historiography (1989) (0)
- Sexual Politics in Modern Iran: Formal marriage (2009) (0)
- WINTER 2010 RELIGIOUS STUDIES 6 ISLAM, GENDER, AND MODERNITY ROOM: HSSB 1173 TTH: 9:30-10:45 (LECTURE) M (DISCUSSION) (2010) (0)
- Vanessa Martin, Islam and Modernism: The Iranian Revolution of 1906 (London: I. B. Tauris, 1989). Pp. 254. (1991) (0)
- Women's Research: Journal of the Center for Women's Studies, Volume 1, No. 1 (June 2004), Tehran: University of Tehran, pp. 127. (2007) (0)
- Padyavand, edited by Amnon Netzer. (Judeo-Iranian and Jewish Studies Series, no. 1) 560 pages, b&w and color illustrations, notes, bibliographies. (In Persian and English.) Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 1996. $35.00 (Cloth) isbn 1-56859-036-9 (1997) (0)
- From Bedrooms to Streets: The Rise of a New Generation of Independent Iranian Women (2022) (0)
- Selected Books Received (2006) (0)
- A. Reza Sheikholeslami, The Structure of Central Authority in Qajar Iran: 1871–1896 (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1997). Pp. 246. (1999) (0)
- Sexual Politics in Modern Iran: Bibliography (2009) (0)
- Epilogue: The Rise in Non-standard Marriages in the Region (2021) (0)
- The Rhetoric and Performance of the Trickster Nasreddin1 (2017) (0)
- Some Reflections on Third World Feminist Historiography (2010) (0)
- RAFIA ZAKARIA Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism by (2011) (0)
- Sexual Politics in Modern Iran: The rise of leftist guerrilla organizations and Islamist movements (2009) (0)
- Review of Awake: A Moslem Woman’s Rare Memoir of her Life and Partnership with the Editor of Molla Nasreddin, the Most Influential Satirical Journal of the Caucasus and Iran, 1907-1931 by Hamideh Khānum Javānshir (2022) (0)
- Sexual Politics in Modern Iran: Slave concubinage, temporary marriage, and harem wives (2009) (0)
- Sexual Politics in Modern Iran: Introduction (2009) (0)
- Birds and Cages: Reading Sex and the State in Janet Afarys Sexual Politics in Modern Iran (2010) (0)
- Sexual Politics in Modern Iran: Redefining purity, unveiling bodies, and shifting desires (2009) (0)
- Iran: A Modern History (2019) (0)
- Sexual Politics in Modern Iran: Birth control, female sexual awakening, and the gay lifestyle (2009) (0)
- Religious dissidents and the constitutional revolution (1994) (0)
- Reviews of Books:Frontier Fictions: Shaping the Iranian Nation, 1804-1946 Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet (2003) (0)
- Sexual Politics in Modern Iran: On the road to an ethos of monogamous, heterosexual marriage (2009) (0)
- Sexual Politics in Modern Iran: Imperialist politics, romantic love, and the impasse over women's suffrage (2009) (0)
- Book Review:Women's Liberation and the Dialectics of Revolution Raya Dunayevskaya (1987) (0)
- Sexual Politics in Modern Iran: Glossary (2009) (0)
- Rowshan fekran-e dini [new religious thinkers] and the institution of velayat-e faqih (2021) (0)
- Contributors (1996) (0)
- Sexual Politics in Modern Iran: Islamist women and the emergence of Islamic feminism (2009) (0)
- Sexual Politics in Modern Iran: Class, status-defined homosexuality, and rituals of courtship (2009) (0)
- Call for Papers: Feminist Perspectives on War and Peace Before and After 9-11: A Special Issue of NWSA Journal (2004) (0)
- Performance of Justice in Qajar Society (2019) (0)
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