Foucault and the Iranian Revolution :

Afary, Janet.

Foucault and the Iranian Revolution : gender and the seductions of Islamism / Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005. - xii, 346 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-319) and index.

Foucault's discourse on pinnacles and pitfalls. The paradoxical world of Foucault : the modern and the traditional social orders -- Processions, passion plays, and rites of penance : Foucault, Shiʻism, and early Christian Rituals -- Foucault's writings on the Iranian Revolution and after. The visits to Iran and the controversies with "Atoussa H." and Maxime Rodinson -- Debating the outcome of the revolution, especially on women's rights -- Foucault, gender, and male homosexualities in Mediterranean and Muslim Societies -- Epilogue : from the Iranian Revolution to September 11, 2001 -- Appendix : Foucault and his critics, an annotated translation.

0226007855 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226007863 (pbk. : alk. paper)


Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 --Political and social views.


Iran--History--Revolution, 1979.

B2430.F724 / A63 2005