MF CASR Lunch with Kristin Soraya Batmanghelichi

Revolutionary Bodies: Technologies of Gender, Sex, and Self in Contemporary Iran

Dr. K. Soraya Batmanghelichi will present her recent monograph in which she interrogates how normative ideas of women's bodies in Iran's state, religious, and public health discourses have resulted in the female body being deemed as immodest and taboo in much of its post-revolutionary history. This research greatly benefits those looking at marginalized and under-studied communities in Iran, such as red-light districts and those in temporary marriages.