Poster design by Razman Goudarzi[/caption] Poster design by Razman Goudarzi[/caption]سخنران: دکتر کلودیا یعقوبی، دانشیار مطالعات فارسی، مؤسسه روشن، دانشگاه کارولینای شمالی در چپل هیل
در این نشست به بررسی چگونی بازنمایی صیغه در ادبیات دورهٔ پهلوی و همچنین دو اثر سینمایی پس از انقلاب اسلامی پرداخته میشود. ازدواج موقت علیرغم مشروع و قانونی بودن در ایران، برای زن و مردی که وارد چنین رابطهای میشوند، و علی الخصوص برای زن نوعی انگ اجتماعی به دنبال دارد. با نگاه به این موضوع در چارچ وب نابرابری و تفکیک جنسیتی، سخنران ازدواج موقت را در دوگانههایی چون تسلیم و مقاومت، تجاوز و تبعیت و موانع و احتمالات بررسی میکند.
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In this talk\, analyzing the representation of sigheh (temporary
marriage) women literature of the Pahlavi era (1924-1979) and two cinematic
works produced after the Islamic Revolution (1979-)\, I will argue that th
ese cultural productions reflect the manner in which the practice of sigheh
impacts women by calling into question how sexuality works as a form of po
litical analysis and power. However\, I will also move beyond the literary
and cinematic realms and examine in-depth a rather controversial social ins
titution which has been the subject of disdain for many Iranian feminists a
nd captured the imagination of many Western observers. Despite their legali
ty and legitimization\, sigheh marriages carry a social stigma that marks t
he couple\, particularly the woman\, who enter such marriages. Seen within
the context of gender inequity and segregation\, I situate temporary marria
ge at the intersection of submission and resistance\, transgression and com
pliance\, obstacles and possibilities. The literature and films of modern I
ran manifest the female body as the locus for socio-cultural policing – a s
ite of social inscriptions\, both subordinate and passive. I will illuminat
e how the female body is produced through an interaction of disciplinary in
stitutions and governments within a patriarchal system that inscribes socio
cultural codes and power structures on the female body. Nonetheless\, while
the female body is an embodiment of sociocultural\, political\, and histor
ical possibilities that are part of the regulatory discourse of the larger
power structure\, I will also highlight the fact that the female body has a
gency. Despite the fact that female sigheh characters are portrayed as invi
sible\, liminal\, vulnerable\, and often stigmatized\, they are simultaneou
sly depicted as exercising a certain power by occupying a significant space
in the social imaginary of the dominant Iranian culture. It is through thi
s dual position that they disrupt the standard narratives about Iranian wom
en and their sexuality. Sigheh women pose threats to the status quo\, hold
power over men\, and create anxiety over male sexuality in Iranian society
even while they themselves are marginalized and subject to violence.
Claudia Yaghoobi is a Roshan Institute Associate Professor in Persian Studies at the University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill. She is the author of the following books: Subjectivity in ‘Attar\, Persian Sufi sm\, and European Mysticism (Purdue UP 2017) and Temporary marriage in Iran : Gender and Body Politics in Modern Iranian Film and Literature (Cambridge UP 2020)\; and co-editor of the book series\, Sex\, Family and Culture in the Middle East (with Janet Afary) and winner of the Hammed Shahidian Criti cal Feminist prize\, awarded by the Iranian Women’s Studies Foundation in 2 014.