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The Poetics and Politics of the Veil in Iran

An Archival and Photographic Adventure

Azadeh Fatehrad (Kingston University)

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English
Intellect Books
19 January 2020
This volume explores the lives of women in Iran through the social, political, and aesthetic contexts of veiling, unveiling, and re-veiling. Through poetic writings and photographs, Azadeh Fatehrad responds to the legacy of the Iranian Revolution via the representation of women in photography, literature, and film. The images and texts are documentary, analytical, and personal.

The Poetics and Politics of the Veil in Iran features Fatehrad’s own photographs in addition to work by artists Hengameh Golestan, Shirin Neshat, Shadi Ghadirian, Abbas Kiarostami, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Adolf Loos, Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault, and Alison Watt. In exploring women’s lives in post-revolutionary Iran, Fatehrad considers the role of the found image and the relationship between the archive and the present, resulting in an illuminating history of feminism in Iran in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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Imprint:   Intellect Books
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 244mm,  Width: 170mm,  Spine: 10mm
Weight:   316g
ISBN:   9781789381269
ISBN 10:   1789381266
Pages:   116
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
About the Book Preface Introduction Chapter One 1.1 Iran in 1936 1.2 The Hijab in Iran 1.3 On Feminism in Iran 1.4 The Islamic Revolution of 1979 1.5 On Photography Chapter Two 2.1 On Veiling and Writing 2.2 Veiling and the Sense of Protection 2.3 On Veiling and Modesty 2.4 On Looking Chapter Three 3.1 Mobile Architecture 3.2 On the Garden: Away from the Crowd 3.3 Drapery: Displacement from the Body to the Fabric 3.4 Today in Iran: The Contemporary Public Life Appendix: The Showroom Project September 2015 Bibliography Acknowledgements Index

Dr Azadeh Fatehrad is an artist and curator based at the Visual and Material Culture Research Centre, Kingston University London, working primarily with still and moving images in the context of historical representation. She was the St. John’s College artist in residence 2018 at the University of Oxford.

Reviews for The Poetics and Politics of the Veil in Iran: An Archival and Photographic Adventure

Fatehrad shares her research with great sincerity. Her book gives a rare glimpse into some of the day-to-day affairs of Iranians, and this is a very welcome addition to the growing literature about the country. --Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, SOAS, University of London, author of Psycho-Nationalism: Global Thought, Iranian Imaginations This refreshing and evocative book brings new light to the study of how women in Iran are represented at home and abroad. Tracking images of Iranian women in photography, film, poetry, fiction and philosophy, Azadeh Fatehrad locates the experience of state-mandated unveiling and veiling within the spaces of the home and society, revealing how changes to the urban fabric coalesce with new veiling regulations to foster and inhibit access to public life for women in Iran. Bringing her own artist's eye to the subject, Fatehrad explores how visual behaviours of looking and averting the gaze--often indiscernible to outsiders--are learned, imposed and resisted by women and men across the generations and across the political spectrum. --Reina Lewis, London College of Fashion, author of Muslim Fashion: Contemporary Style Cultures


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