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Contents List of Illustrations ix Preface, Acknowledgments, Translation, and Transliteration xi 1. Academic Writing and Writing about Lives An Introduction 1 2. Modernity, Sexuality, and Popular Culture Iran’s Social Agony 21 3. Iranian Women and Public Space in the Seventies Shahrzad, a Woman of Her Time 46 4. Seduction, Sin, and Salvation Spurious Sexuality in Dance and Film 95 5. Shahrzad as a Writer The Question of Literary Modernity 134 6. Social Change in Iran and the Transforming Lives of Women Artists 176 7. Ideology, Sexuality, and Sexual Agency An Afterword 205 Notes 237 Bibliography 287 Index 309 ...

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