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Afsaneh Najmabadi <najmabad@fas.harvard.edu> Harvard University Associate Editor, Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures Completing a book on transformations of gender and sexuality in nineteenth-century Iran |
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Address: | Committee on Degrees in Women's Studies Barker Center, Harvard University 12 Quincy St. Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 United States |
Primary Phone: | 617-496-7460 |
Fax Number: | 617-496-9855 |
List Affiliations: | Advisory Board Member for H-Mideast-Politics |
Interests: | Women, Gender, and Sexuality |
Bio: Ph.D. sociology, University of Manchester (UK), 1984 MA, Harvard University, Physics BA, Radcliffe College, Physics Selected Publications: Book: The Story of Daughters of Quchan: Gender and National Memory in Iranian History, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1998. Articles and book chapters: "The Gender of Modernity: Reflections from Iranian Historiography," pp. 75-91, in Histories of the Modern Middle East: New Directions, eds. Israel Gershoni, Hakan Erdem and Ursula Woköck, Boulder (CO) & London: Lynne Reinner Publishers, 2002. "(Un)Veiling Feminism," Social Text 18, 3 (Fall 2000): 29-45. "Reading Wiles of Women Stories as Fictions of Masculinity," in Arabic Abwab 22 (fall 1999): 131-145. Related courses taught: "Women, Islam and Nationalism in the Middle East and North Africa". |