Liminalities of Gender and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Iranian Photography - Desirous Bodies (Hardcover)

Nineteenth-century Iran was an ocularcentered society predicated on visuality and what was seen and unseen, and photographs became liminal sites of desire that maneuvered "betwixt and between" various social spaces-public, private, seen, unseen, accessible, and forbidden-thus mapping, graphing, and even transgressing those spaces, especially in light of increasing modernization and global contact during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Of primary interest is how photographs negotiated and coded gender, sexuality, and desire, becoming strategies of empowerment, of domination, of expression, and of being seen. Hence, the photograph became a vehicle to traverse multiple locations that various gendered physical bodies could not, and it was also the social and political relations that had preceded the photograph that determined those ideological spaces of (im)mobility. In identifying these notions in photographs, one may glean information about how modern Iran metamorphosed throughout its own long duree or resisted those societal transformations as a result of modernization.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge History of Photography
Release date:	December 2016
First published:	2017
Authors:	Staci Gem Scheiwiller
Dimensions:	246 x 174 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	220
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-20129-3
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Photography & photographs > General Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1800 to 1900 > General Promotions
LSN:	1-138-20129-4
Barcode:	9781138201293

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