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Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2007

Valentine M. Moghadam
Valentine M. Moghadam
Affiliation:
UNESCO
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Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism. By Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 312p. $60.00 cloth, $24.00 paper.

Michel Foucault is the man who gave us trenchant critiques of modernity in books such as Madness and Civilization, Discipline and Punish, and The History of Sexuality. His arguments about the body, power, and knowledge have influenced a number of interdisciplinary studies and created a generation of “Foucauldians.” However, one set of his writings has been decidedly uninfluential: the set pertaining to the Iranian Revolution of 1978–79. Those journalistic essays—written for the Italian and French press (Corriere della serra and Nouvel Observateur)—are the subject of this fascinating and comprehensive volume by Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson.

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BOOK REVIEWS: POLITICAL THEORY
Information
Perspectives on Politics , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , March 2007 , pp. 141 - 142
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© 2007 American Political Science Association

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