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Foucault and the Iranian Revolution : gender and the seductions of Islamism /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Afary, Janet
Other Authors: Anderson, Kevin, 1948-, Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Subjects:
Foucault, Michel, > 1926-1984 > Political and social views.
Iran > History > Revolution, 1979.
Table of Contents:
  • Foucault's discourse on pinnacles and pitfalls. The paradoxical world of Foucault: the modern and the traditional social orders
  • Processions, passion plays, and rites of penance: Foucault, ShiĘ»ism, and early Christian Rituals
  • Foucault's writings on the Iranian Revolution and after. The visits to Iran and the controversies with "Atoussa H." and Maxime Rodinson
  • Debating the outcome of the revolution, especially on women's rights
  • Foucault, gender, and male homosexualities in Mediterranean and Muslim Societies
  • Epilogue: from the Iranian Revolution to September 11, 2001
  • Appendix: Foucault and his critics, an annotated translation.