#  Najmabadi, Afsaneh - Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran  

 





June 01, 2013

 

 

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Afsaneh Najmabadi. Duke University Press. 2013  
[Publisher's Link](https://www.dukeupress.edu/Professing-Selves/) Since the mid-1980s, the Islamic Republic of Iran has permitted, and partially subsidized, sex reassignment surgery. In *Professing Selves*, Afsaneh Najmabadi explores the meaning of transsexuality in contemporary Iran. [Read more...](https://www.dukeupress.edu/Professing-Selves/)

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  **[Afsaneh Najmabadi](http://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/afsaneh-najmabadi)** **Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality** Afsaneh Najmabadi is the Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. Her book, [*Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity* ](http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520242630)(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005), received the 2005 Joan Kelly Memorial Prize from the American Historical Association. With Kathryn Babayan, she co-edited [*Islamicate Sexualities: Translations across Temporal Geographies of Desire*](http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674032040) (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Middle Eastern Monographs, 2008). Her latest book, [*Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran*](https://www.dukeupress.edu/Professing-Selves/) (Duke University Press, 2013) was a finalist for Lambda Literary Award in 2014 and received the 2014 Joan Kelly Memorial Prize from [American Historical Association](https://www.facebook.com/AHAhistorians). [Read more...](http://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/afsaneh-najmabadi) 

 





 

 

 



 

 

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