TY  - CHAP
ID  - 339
UR  - https://bahai-library.com/mottahedeh_mutilated_body_nations
WT  - Baha'i Library Online
T1  - Mutilated Body of the Modern Nation: Qurrat al-'Ayn's Unveiling and the Persian Massacre of the Bábís
T2  - Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
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A1  - Mottahedeh,Negar
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Y1  - 1998
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VL  - 18
IS  - 2
SP  - 38
EP  - 50
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M3  - Articles
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LA  - English
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AB  - A Freudian interpretation of the extreme antipathy underlying common Iranian opposition to the Babis/Bahá'ís as being disruptive symbols of destabilizing modernism, with the stories of Qurratu'l-'Ayn's public unveiling a central element.    
N1  - Presented at the Interdisciplinary 19th Century Studies Conference, University of California at Berkeley, April 1997.  See also another version of this paper, Ruptured Spaces and Effective Histories: The Unveiling of the Bábí Poetess Qurrat al-'Ayn-Tahirih in the Gardens of Badasht.
C1  - Proofread 2010-07-27 by Jonah Winters.
KW  - Badasht, Iran
KW  - Bábí history
KW  - Conference of Badasht (1848)
KW  - Dawn-Breakers (book)
KW  - Equality
KW  - Iran (documents)
KW  - Veils
KW  - Women
KW  - Ṭáhirih Qurratu'l-'Ayn
ER  -