Whisper Tapes (eBook)

Kate Millett in Iran

Negar Mottahedeh (Autor)

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2023
224 Seiten
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5036-1015-6 (ISBN)

Infos

"e;Lyrical, intelligent, and passionately written, Whisper Tapes reignites a long dormant conversation about the urgency of global feminism."e; -Shilyh Warren, University of Texas at DallasKate Millett was already an icon of American feminism when she went to Iran in 1979. She arrived just weeks after the Iranian Revolution, to join Iranian women in marking International Women's Day. Intended as a day of celebration, the event turned into a week of protests. Millett, armed with film equipment and a cassette deck to record everything around her, found herself in the middle of demonstrations for women's rights and against the mandatory veil. Listening to the revolutionary soundscape of Millett's audio tapes, Negar Mottahedeh offers a new interpretive guide to Revolutionary Iran, its slogans, habits, and women's movement a movement that, many claim, Millett never came to understand. Published with the fortieth anniversary of the Iranian Revolution and the women's protests that followed on its heels, Whisper Tapes re-introduces Millett's historic visit to Iran and lays out the nature of her encounter with the Iranian women's movement. "e;In offering a deeply contingent history, Negar Mottahedeh beautifully shows Kate Millett's simultaneous closeness to and distance from the events surrounding her."e; Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, Princeton University"e;Lyrical in style and poetic in meaning, Whisper Tapes challenges readers to adopt an intersectional view of Iranian feminist movements while adding layers and dimensionality to Millett's preexisting literature."e; Aisha Jitan, The Middle East Journal"e;Mottahedeh's illuminating study complements Millett's work and offers a more nuanced reading of a historic moment."e; Lucy Popescu, Times Literary Supplement

Autor

Negar Mottahedeh is Associate Professor of Literature at Duke University. She is the author of #iranelection: Hashtag Solidarity and the Transformation of Online Life (Stanford, 2015), among other books.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.5.2023
• Zusatzinfo: 15 halftones
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Agnotology • cassette tapes • Iranian feminism • Iranian Revolution • media censorship • Mouvement de Libération des Femmes • Oriana Fallaci • Psych et Po • second wave feminism • Simone de Beauvoir
• ISBN-10: 1-5036-1015-2 / 1503610152
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5036-1015-6 / 9781503610156