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Women’s Agency and Ontology in Nineteenth-Century Iranian Photography A Mirror for Princesses

244 Pages 20 Color & 73 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

244 Pages 20 Color & 73 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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This study argues that photographs from Qajar Iran (1785–1925) of harem women, royal women, and public women, such as sex workers, musicians, singers, and dancers, make profound statements on the institution of the harem in a time of flux and modernization. Depictions of the harem in photographs shifted the scopic regime of power and made visible an Iranian “Sultanate of Women,” which produced... Read more

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

A NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION

1. INTRODUCTION

2. MYTHS AND ORIGINS OF WOMEN IN QAJAR PHOTOGRAPHY

3. MAHD-E ʿOLYA: THE PHOTOGRAPHY QUEEN: PART I

4. MAHD-E ʿOLYA: THE PHOTOGRAPHY QUEEN: PART II

5. TO BE SEEN OR NOT TO BE SEEN: PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE QUEEN OF IRAN, ANIS AL-DOWLEH

6. WITHIN THE REALM OF A DYING HAREM: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF KHANOM BASHI

7. A MOTHER OF THE HEARTH: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF PRINCESS ʿESMAT AL-DOWLEH

8. A MOTHER OF THE REVOLUTION: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF TAJ AL-SALTANEH