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Familial Undercurrents: Untold Stories of Love and Marriage in Modern Iran. Afsaneh Najmbadi (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022). pp. 162. $25.95

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Familial Undercurrents: Untold Stories of Love and Marriage in Modern Iran. Afsaneh Najmbadi (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022). pp. 162. $25.95

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 October 2024

Susanna Ferguson*
Affiliation:
Smith College, Northampton, MA, USA ([email protected])

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3 Seikaly, “How I Met My Great Grandfather”; see also Mikdashi, Maya, Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in Lebanon (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022)Google Scholar, especially ch. 2.

4 See, inter alia, Kholoussy, Hanan, For Better, For Worse: The Marriage Crisis That Made Modern Egypt (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Cuno, Kenneth M., Modernizing Marriage: Family, Ideology, and Law in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Egypt (New York: Syracuse University Press, 2015)Google Scholar; Pollard, Lisa, Nurturing the Nation: The Family Politics of Modernizing, Colonizing, and Liberating Egypt, 1805–1923 (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005)Google Scholar.