Professing Selves by Afsaneh Najmabadi PAPERBACK 9780822355571

Duke University Press

Since the mid-1980s, the Islamic Republic of Iran has permitted, and partially subsidized, sex reassignment surgery. In Professing Selves, Afsaneh Najmabadi explores the meaning of transsexuality in contemporary Iran. Combining historical and ethnographic research, she describes how, in the postrevolutionary era, the domains of law, psychology and psychiatry, Islamic jurisprudence, and biomedicine became invested in distinguishing between the acceptable \""true\"" transsexual and other categories of identification, notably the \""true\"" homosexual, an unacceptable category of existence in Iran. Najmabadi argues that this collaboration among medical authorities, specialized clerics, and state officials-which made transsexuality a legally tolerated, if not exactly celebrated, category of being-grew\n\nProfessing Selves\nTranssexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked ;