Join us as we delve into an illuminating history of sexual politics in modern Iran with the scholar of religion and modernity, Professor Janet Afary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Join us as we delve into an illuminating history of sexual politics in modern Iran with the scholar of religion and modernity, Professor Janet Afary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"full-width-content","episode_type":"audio","audio_file":"http:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/woman-life-freedom-all-in-on-iran-podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2025\/11\/2023-03-08_WLF-Ep-4-Descript_Final_2.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"1:18:25","filesize":"89.74M","filesize_raw":"94104200","date_recorded":"2023-03-08 22:26:00","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":""},"tags":[],"categories":[],"series":[2],"class_list":{"0":"post-12","1":"podcast","2":"type-podcast","3":"status-publish","5":"series-woman-life-freedom-all-in-on-iran-podcast","6":"entry"},"acf":{"related_episodes":"","hosts":[{"ID":79,"post_author":"10","post_date":"2025-11-21 17:41:11","post_date_gmt":"2025-11-21 17:41:11","post_content":"\n
Nahid Siamdoust has been researching and reporting about Iran as an academic and journalist for over twenty years. She is currently an assistant professor of media and Middle East studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Oxford, was the inaugural Yarshater Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University, and a visiting professor at Harvard Divinity School. Nahid is the author of Soundtrack of the Revolution: The Politics of Music in Iran (Stanford, 2017). Previously, she was an Iran correspondent for Time Magazine and a Middle East based correspondent for Al Jazeera International. Her recent commentaries have appeared in The New York Times, New Lines Magazine, Foreign Policy, BBC, and NPR.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Nahid Siamdoust","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"nahid-siamdoust","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-11-21 17:41:11","post_modified_gmt":"2025-11-21 17:41:11","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/woman-life-freedom-all-in-on-iran-podcast\/?post_type=speaker&p=79","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"guests":[{"ID":66,"post_author":"10","post_date":"2025-11-21 15:31:08","post_date_gmt":"2025-11-21 15:31:08","post_content":"\n
Janet Afary<\/strong> is Mellichamp Professor of Global Religion at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has published widely on Iran various aspects of modern Iran, with a focus on gender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Janet Afary holds the Mellichamp Chair in Global Religion and Modernity at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she is a Professor of Religious Studies. She is a historian of modern Iran and has a PhD in History and Near East Studies from the University of Michigan, where her dissertation received the Distinguished Rackham Dissertation Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Her award-winning books include: Sexual Politics in Modern Iran<\/em> (Cambridge University Press, 2009, winner of the British Society for Middle East Studies Annual Book Prize); The Iranian Constitutional Revolution: Grassroots Democracy, Social Democracy, and the Origins of Feminism<\/em> (Columbia University Press, 1996, winner of Dehkhoda Institute Book Award); (with Kevin B. Anderson) Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism<\/em> (University of Chicago Press, 2005, winner of the Latifeh Yarshater Book Award for Iranian Women\u2019s Studies);<\/p>\n\n\n\n She publishes frequently in both academic journals and also more mainstream publications.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Janet Afary","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"janet-afary","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-11-21 15:31:09","post_modified_gmt":"2025-11-21 15:31:09","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/woman-life-freedom-all-in-on-iran-podcast\/?post_type=speaker&p=66","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"transcript":""},"episode_featured_image":false,"episode_player_image":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/woman-life-freedom-all-in-on-iran-podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2025\/11\/WLF_Draft-02LOGOstacked.png","download_link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/woman-life-freedom-all-in-on-iran-podcast\/podcast-download\/12\/woman-life-freedom-all-in-on-iran-sexual-politics-in-iran-with-janet-afary.mp3","player_link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/woman-life-freedom-all-in-on-iran-podcast\/podcast-player\/12\/woman-life-freedom-all-in-on-iran-sexual-politics-in-iran-with-janet-afary.mp3","audio_player":"