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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 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

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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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.

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