Poster design by Razman Goudarzi[/caption][caption id="attachment_54835" width="620"
] Poster design by Razman Goudarzi[/caption]
سخنران: دکتر مریم زهتابی ثابتی مقدم، دانشگاه ماساچوست در امهرست
در ایران، با توجه به کمبود منا بع اجتماعی-تاریخی در مورد روسپیگری و فقدان نوشتههای خودِ روسپیها تا اواس ط قرن بیستم، مسئولیتِ پرداختن به این موضوع و روشن ساختن جنبههای مختلف شرای ط زندگی و کار روسپیها بر عهدهٔ نویسندگان ادبی و هنرمندان قرار گرفت. نویسند گان ایرانی در نوشتههای خود روسپیگری را با موضوعاتی مانند فساد اقتصادی، زو ال سیاسی و ریاکاری دینی مرتبط کردند و با این کار، نظرات خود را در مورد جامع ه، سیاست و مذهب از طریق شخصیت روسپی به اشتراک گذاشتند. فیلمسازان ایرانی نیز از شخصیت فاحشه برای تجسم برخورد سنت و مدرنیته در کشور استفاده کردند. در ای ن نشست، سخنران تصویر روسپی را در آثار متنی و تصویری از انقلاب مشروطه تا انق لاب اسلامی مورد بررسی قرار میدهد تا از این طریق تحولات گفتمانی پیرامون روس پیگری را روشن کند.
The event recording is now available
:
https://youtu.be/DFiE6TcizYk
Prostitutes have been judge
d\, stigmatized\, criminalized\, pathologized\, and marginalized\, but also
sought after\, idolized\, and revered. They have been regarded as both vic
tims and conquerors\, commodified bodies and entrepreneurs. Their professio
n is a paradox—shrouded in myths—constructed\, conceived\, and theorized in
a myriad of ways due to its varying legal definitions and the numerous per
mutations it undergoes to contravene the laws.
In Iran\, the dearth o f sociohistorical sources on prostitution and the lack of writings by prost itutes themselves up until mid-twentieth century (Sattareh Farman-Farmaʾian ’s influential On Prostitution in the City of Tehran would not appear until 1970)\, made it the purview of literary writers and artists to shed light on the life and working conditions of prostitutes. Although in the previous centuries prostitutes cropped up sporadically in literary texts\, it was w ith the dawn of the twentieth century\, and as a result of the consequentia l and exceptional socio-political developments of the time\, that a remarka ble number of Iranian literary writers turned their attention to bringing t he plight of prostitutes to light to lay bare the causes as well as consequ ences of prostitution for both individual prostitutes and the society at la rge.
Associating prostitution with economic corruption\, political de cay\, and religious hypocrisy—among other themes—Iranian writers inscribed their social\, political\, and religious commentary on the body of the pros titute character. Similarly\, Iranian filmmakers used the prostitute charac ter to embody the clash of tradition and modernity in the country. In this talk\, our presenter will scrutinize the image of the prostitute and her in flationary popularity in written and visual texts from the Constitutional R evolution (1906-1911) to the Islamic Revolution (1979) to shed light on the shifts in discourse on prostitution in the twentieth-century Iran.
< strong>Maryam Zehtabi Sabeti Moqaddam has a Ph.D. in Comparative L iterature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst where she recently d efended her dissertation on the representations of sex workers in Persian f ilm and fiction from the Constitutional Revolution (1906-1911) to the Islam ic Revolution (1979). She is particularly interested in feminist\, gender\, and sexuality studies and the intersection of religion and women studies. She is also a published translator aspiring to introduce Iranian women writ ers to Western audiences through translation and criticism of their works.< /p>