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Informationen zum Autor Sivan Balslev is a lecturer at the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. After receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Tel Aviv, she was a fellow at the Polonsky Academy for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. She has also translated two of Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad's books from Persian to Hebrew. Klappentext This unique study spotlights the role of masculinity in Iranian history by examining how men under the reign of Reza Shah dressed, acted, spoke, and thought differently from when under Qajar rule. Balslev finds that the notion of what made a 'proper Iranian man' shifted with changes in wider Iranian society. Zusammenfassung This unique study spotlights the role of masculinity in Iranian history by examining how men under the reign of Reza Shah dressed, acted, spoke, and thought differently from when under Qajar rule. Balslev finds that the notion of what made a 'proper Iranian man' shifted with changes in wider Iranian society. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: changing masculinities in a changing Iran; 1. Ideals and practices of masculinity in Qajar society: Javanmard, Luti and Pahlava; 2. Western knowledge and education and the emergence of a new Iranian masculinity in the late nineteenth-century; 3. Gendering the nation: patriotic men and endangered women in the constitutional revolution discourse; 4. Farangimaabs and Fokolis: masculinities and westernization from the constitutional revolution to Reza Shah; 5. Marriage reform in interwar Iran: regulating male sexuality to maintain male hegemony; 6. Male dress reforms under Reza Shah; 7. 'Strong spirits, strong arms, strong hearts': sport, scouting and soldiering under Reza Shah; Conclusions.
