03395oam 2200529I 450 991015503650332120180821103633.01-315-51213-01-315-51212-210.4324/9781315512136 (CKB)4340000000019333(MiAaPQ)EBC4756222(OCoLC)965196585(EXLCZ)99434000000001933320180706d2017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierLiminalities of gender and sexuality in nineteenth-century Iranian photography desirous bodies /Staci Gem ScheiwillerNew York :Routledge,2017.1 online resource (240 pages)Routledge History of Photography1-138-20129-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Locations of desire -- A language of its own : depictions of women in Iranian art before and shortly after the arrival of photography -- Corporeal politics : constructions of gender and power in the royal Nasiri photograph albums and the photography of the Constitutional Revolution (1905-11) -- Collecting women -- The erotic spaces of Qajar photography -- For the male gaze : depictions of masculinity and sexuality -- Enslaved bodies of desire : photographs of black African slaves in Qajar photography -- Conclusion: The inevitable witness.Nineteenth-century Iran was an ocularcentered society predicated on visuality and what was seen and unseen, and photographs became liminal sites of desire that maneuvered "betwixt and between" various social spaces - public, private, seen, unseen, accessible, and forbidden - thus mapping, graphing, and even transgressing those spaces, especially in light of increasing modernization and global contact during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Of primary interest is how photographs negotiated and coded gender, sexuality, and desire, becoming strategies of empowerment, of domination, of expression, and of being seen. Hence, the photograph became a vehicle to traverse multiple locations that various gendered physical bodies could not, and it was also the social and political relations that had preceded the photograph that determined those ideological spaces of (im)mobility. In identifying these notions in photographs, one may glean information about how modern Iran metamorphosed throughout its own long durée or resisted those societal transformations as a result of modernization.Routledge history of photography.PhotographyIranHistory19th centuryPhotography, EroticHistory19th centurySex customsIranHistory19th centuryIranHistoryQajar dynasty, 1794-1925IranSocial life and customs19th centuryElectronic books.PhotographyHistoryPhotography, EroticHistorySex customsHistory770.955Scheiwiller Staci Gem.933916MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910155036503321Liminalities of gender and sexuality in nineteenth-century Iranian photography2102593UNINA