I met an inspiring woman today and i felt like I should share a little about her in feministing. Here is the introduction about Harvard Professor, Afsaneh Najmabadi in wikipedia:

Afs?neh Najm?b?di (Persian: ?????? ??? ????? ) (born 1946) is an Iranian historian and gender theorist . She is professor of History and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University.[ 1] At present she chairs the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality.[ 2] She is further Associate Editor of Encyclopaedia of Women and Islamic Cultures , in six volumes

Among her books are:

Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards : Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity ,

And you can read a little more about her in the Harvard Gazette.

She is currently doing research on transsexuals in iran and I heard her talk on this topic at UCLA.

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