TY - JOUR
T1 - Passionate uprisings
T2 - Young people, sexuality and politics in post-revolutionary Iran
AU - Mahdavi, Pardis
N1 - Funding Information:
I would like, first and foremost, to thank my advisor, mentor and friend, Carole Vance, without whose enduring support this research would not have been possible. I would also like to thank, Lila Abu-Lughod, Lynn Freedman, Shahla Haeri and Rebecca Young for helping me to better the work in all its forms. The research for this study would not have been possible without the financial support of the following fellowships: the Woodrow Wilson Women’s Health Fellowship, Cordier Fellowship, the National Development and Research Institute Behavioural Science Training Fellowship and the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy Fellowship Program.
PY - 2007/9
Y1 - 2007/9
N2 - This paper examines the sexual and social practices of young people in contemporary Iran. Young people in urban areas live under the rubric of a fundamentalist, Islamist regime which restricts social freedoms such as premarital heterosexual contact, homosexual encounters, dancing, alcohol consumption and large group gatherings. Drawing on close focus research and individual and group inteviews, this paper seeks to analyse young people's responses to these constraints. Findings suggest that many young adults use their 'rebellious' social behaviour to make political statements against a regime that dissatisfies them; saying, in their own words, that they are enacting and bringing about a 'sexual revolution'.
AB - This paper examines the sexual and social practices of young people in contemporary Iran. Young people in urban areas live under the rubric of a fundamentalist, Islamist regime which restricts social freedoms such as premarital heterosexual contact, homosexual encounters, dancing, alcohol consumption and large group gatherings. Drawing on close focus research and individual and group inteviews, this paper seeks to analyse young people's responses to these constraints. Findings suggest that many young adults use their 'rebellious' social behaviour to make political statements against a regime that dissatisfies them; saying, in their own words, that they are enacting and bringing about a 'sexual revolution'.
KW - Iran
KW - Islam
KW - Sexual behaviour
KW - Young people
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U2 - 10.1080/13691050601170378
DO - 10.1080/13691050601170378
M3 - Article
C2 - 17687671
AN - SCOPUS:34547921277
SN - 1369-1058
VL - 9
SP - 445
EP - 457
JO - Culture, Health and Sexuality
JF - Culture, Health and Sexuality
IS - 5
ER -