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Book of Queens reaches back centuries to the Persian Empire and a woman disguised as a man, facing an invading army, protected only by light armor and the stallion she sat astride. Mahdavi draws a thread from past to present: from her fearless Iranian grandmother, who guided survivors of domestic violence to independent mountain colonies in Afghanistan where the women, led by a general named Mina, became their country's first line of defense f...

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To hyphenate or not to hyphenate has been a central point of controversy since before the imprinting of the first Gutenberg Bible. And yet, the hyphen has persisted, bringing and bridging new words and concepts. The journey of this humble piece of connective punctuation reveals the quiet power of an orthographic concept to speak to the travails of hyphenated individuals all over the world. As well as following the history of the hyphen from an...

Investigates the emerging, new sexual culture of Iranian youth, in which sexuality represents freedom and engaging in sex can be considered political activism.

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Gridlock" explores how migrant workers' actual experiences in Dubai contrast with the typical discussions--and global moral panic--about human trafficking.

A panic surrounds human trafficking and terrorism. The socially constructed `war on terror¿ and `war on trafficking¿ are linked through discourses that not only combine the two, but help promote an anti-Muslim sentiment. Using ethnographic data and stories, From Trafficking to Terror presents the need to challenge the trafficking and terror paradigm, and rethink approaches to the large scale challenges these discourses have created. This book ...

This book considers the intimate lives of migrant laborers and highlights the shortcomings of policies that criminalize migrants and their loved ones.

This book considers the intimate lives of migrant laborers and highlights the shortcomings of policies that criminalize migrants and their loved ones.

Investigates the emerging, new sexual culture of Iranian youth, in which sexuality represents freedom and engaging in sex can be considered political activism.