Menopause in Iranian Muslim Women
Gendered and Sexual Experiences of Menopausal Women
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This book offers an original empirical study into the gendered and sexual experiences of Iranian Muslim women going through menopause. Using a biographical lifecourse lens, it explores the processes through which these experiences are shaped by hegemonic gender norms, as well as how these women express their agency. Centering the voices of Iranian Muslim women, this book links sexuality, ageing, and the body to the matter of menopause, conceived here as a gendered, embodied and lived phenomenon characterised both by cultural constraint and by individual reflexive body techniques. By considering gender and sexuality as vectors of power with internal politics, inequalities, and oppression alongside embodied practice, the author shows how the life course provides a trajectory of sex and sexuality that routes both in time, space, social and cultural context.
Elham Amini is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Liverpool, UK. Her work focuses on the gendered and sexual experiences of menopausal women, and her research interests include medical sociology, ageing, sexualities, and women's health.
This book offers an original empirical study into the gendered and sexual experiences of Iranian Muslim women going through menopause. Using a biographical lifecourse lens, it explores the processes through which these experiences are shaped by hegemonic gender norms, as well as how these women express their agency. Centering the voices of Iranian Muslim women, this book links sexuality, ageing, and the body to the matter of menopause, conceived here as a gendered, embodied and lived phenomenon characterised both by cultural constraint and by individual reflexive body techniques. By considering gender and sexuality as vectors of power with internal politics, inequalities, and oppression alongside embodied practice, the author shows how the life course provides a trajectory of sex and sexuality that routes both in time, space, social and cultural context.
brings together gender and sexuality studies in the Middle East with aging studies analyzes narrative life stories of Iranian Muslim women turns away from biomedical frameworks to considers the social, political, and cultural dimensions of menopause
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“This book is a tour de force of contemporary biographical and narrative research. Beautifully and movingly written and researched. Elham Amini delivers a critical, sensitive biographical life course analysis of the sexualities of Iranian Muslim (Shiite) menopausal women in Iran, set against the social-political-cultural context, gender regimes and gender orders. The book makes a huge contribution to decolonising biographical scholarship. Essential reading for gender and sexualities, aging, biographical, narrative and life course scholars as well as researchers in social and public health.”
--Professor Maggie O'Neill (MRIA, FAcSS, FRSA), Director Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century ISS21 and Director UCC Futures: Collective Social Futures, University College Cork
“Elham Amini has written an important book that shines light on the lives of Iranian menopausal women, in beautiful and emotional detail. Most significantly, this book creates and holds space: spacefor the innovative synthesis of diverse theories and rich qualitative data; space for the reader to bear witness and gain understanding of the experiences of life in Iran for older women; and space for these women to think, reflect, and speak their truths about the most private aspects of their lives. These spaces make for a profound book, with important insights into gender and sexuality, the life course, structure and agency, and other enduring sociological questions”--Professor Mark McCormack, Professor of Sociology, Centre Director, Equality, Justice and Social Change Centre, University of Roehampton
“This is a beautifully written and highly engaging study of Iranian Muslim women’s menopause experience. Drawing on theoretical frameworks derived from Raewynn Connell and Nick Crossley in particular, and situating menopause in the biographical context of women’s sexual and reproductive life course, Amini deftly interweaves theory and rich empirical data fromthis extremely hard-to-reach community. She presents menopause as a key transitional point in women’s lives in which they can respond reflexively and agentically to instate identity transformation. In so doing, Amini’s research shatters the western stereotypes of such women as victims, as passive and/or inactive in the face of patriarchal power and reveals the subtle yet powerful ways in which they challenge the hegemony of silence under which their sexual lives have been lived until this point in order to author their own lives as (ageing) women.”
--Professor Susan Pickard, Professor of Sociology, Centre for Ageing and the Life Course, University of Liverpool()