Liminalities of Gender and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Iranian Photography: Desirous Bodies

ISBN-13: 9781032179308 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 240 str.

Staci Gem Scheiwiller

Opis

This book examines Qajar Iran (1785-1925) as an ocular-centered society founded on what was seen and unseen, in the context of increasing modernization and global contact during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Locations of Desire











2. A Language of Its Own: Depictions of Women in Iranian Art Before and Shortly After the Arrival of Photography














3. Corporeal Politics: Constructions of Gender and Power in the Royal Nasiri Photograph Albums and the Photography of the Constitutional Revolution (1905-11)














4. Collecting Women














5. The Erotic Spaces of Qajar Photography














6. For the Male Gaze: Depictions of Masculinity and Sexuality














7. Enslaved Bodies of Desire: Photographs of Black African Slaves














8. Conclusion: The Inevitable Witness

O autorze

Staci Gem Scheiwiller is Assistant Professor of Modern Art History at California State University, Stanislaus. Her publications include a co-edited volume with Markus Ritter entitled The Indigenous Lens: Early Photography in the Near and Middle East (2017) and the edited volume Performing the Iranian State: Visual Culture and Representations of Iranian Identity (2013).