Meftahi, Ida

Gender and dance in modern Iran biopolitics on stage / [Texte imprimé] : Ida Meftahi - London : Routledge, 2016 - 1 vol. (185 p.) ; 24 cm - Iranian studies ; 32 .

Notes bibliogr.

1. Introduction -- 2. The invention of an ideal female national dancer in twentieth-century Iran -- 3. Mutribs and their dancers: the counter-ideal performers of new Iran -- 4. The cabaret dancer in her quotidian life -- 5. Dancing bodies in pre-revolutionary films and the 'enticing' reel cabaret dancer -- 6. The dancing body in the anti-obscenity discourse of religious press in pre-revolutionary Iran -- 7. Harikat-i mawzun: the post-revolutionary Iranian theatrical dance -- 8. Dance, body, space, and subjectivity on the twentieth-century Iranian stage

978-1-138-80404-3

Dance--Iran--History Gender expression--Iran--History

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