This book uses storytelling as an analytical tool for following wider social attitude changes towards sex and female sexuality in Iran. Women born in 1950s Iran grew up during the peak of secularization and modernization, whereas those born in the 1980s were raised under the much stricter rules of the Islamic Republic. Using extensive ethnographic research, the author juxtaposes narratives of body and sexuality shared by these different generations of women, showing the intricate ways in which women construct and convey meanings and communicate their emotions about the unspoken aspects of their lives.1. Introduction
Background of the Context: The Two Generations
Youth, Sexuality and the Islamic State
Research Method and Fieldwork Encounters
The Interview Process
The Issue of Trust and Confidentiality
Positionality
Mapping the Fieldwork
2. Conceptual Framework
Introduction
The Emerging Concern: Demystifying Women???s Passive Subordination
Power and Resistance Framework
The Limits of Binary Analysis: Redefining Resistance and Agency
3. Learning Sexuality
Introduction
Population Policies and the Topic of Sex
Globalised Media: New Sources of Learning Sexuality
The Question of ???Normality???
The Post-Revolutionary Discourse of Sexuality
The Religious Discourse and Women???s Perception of Sex
Combining Hadith with SciencelsB
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