Now, people accused of, but not yet convicted of #robbery, get to have their hands chopped off in front of large crowds. #Couples thought to be having #premarital-sex can be publicly flogged in a stadium. And women are now forbidden from using male doctors.
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#Sexuality and #gender have come to serve as measures for cultural #belonging in discussions of the position of #Muslim #immigrants in #multicultural Western societies. While the acceptance of assumed local norms such as sexual liberty and gender equality are seen as successful integration, rejecting them is regarded as a sign of failed #citizenship. Focusing on #premarital sex, #homosexuality, and #cohabitation outside marriage, this book provides an #ethnographic account of sexuality among the Iranian Dutch. It argues that by embracing, rejecting, and questioning #modernity in stories about sexuality, the Iranian Dutch actively engage in processes of #self-fashioning. https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/RoodsazSexual