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1 - Sigheh Marriages in Modern Iran

from Part I - General Overview

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2020

Claudia Yaghoobi
Claudia Yaghoobi
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Chapter 1 focuses on the sociopolitical and cultural background of Iran with respect to sigheh marriages and female sexuality from the final years of the Qajar era to the Islamic period. I trace the sociocultural impacts of the gender-based reforms under each regime and discuss the fluctuating value of sigheh marriages during each period and how the disequilibrium of these reforms influences prevailing discourses on female sexuality, sigheh marriages, and further stigmatization of sigheh women.

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sighehtemporary marriagefemale bodyfemale sexualityIranstigmagender-based reforms
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Temporary Marriage in Iran
Gender and Body Politics in Modern Iranian Film and Literature
 , pp. 45 - 74
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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