Janet Afary

Janet Afary

Janet Afary is an Iranian author, feminist activist and researcher in history, political sciences and women studies. She now lives in the United States of America.

Her research field includes politics of contemporary Iran and gender and sexuality in modern Iran. She is known for her writings and research on the Persian Constitutional Revolution.

Afary is a professor of Middle East Studies & Women's Studies at Purdue University. She received her M.A. from University of Tehran and her Ph.D. in Modern Middle East History from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She was the recipient of the Horace H. Rackham Distinguished Dissertation Award from the University of Michigan. [ [http://www.cla.purdue.edu/academic/history/facstaff/Afary/H-Afary.htm Janet Afary - Department of History ] ]

Bibliography

* "The Iranian Constitutional Revolution: Grassroots Democracy, Social Democracy, and the Origins of Feminism" (Columbia University Press, 1996)
* "Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism" (University of Chicago Press, 2005), with Kevin Anderson [http://www.polsci.purdue.edu/Directory/Faculty/anderson.html] . "Sexual Politics in Modern Iran" (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

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See also

* Politics of Iran


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