Yesterday, I gave a public talk on “Transsexuals, Clones & Gametes: Adjudicating Bodily Difference in Iranian Islamic Jurisprudence,” at the Sexual Sovereignty: Citizenship, Governmentality, Territory Conference at the American University of Beirut organized by Dr. Jasbir Puar. To read about this conference, please click here: http://www.aub.edu.lb/news/2013/Pages/sexuality-conf.aspx.
My article on this topic, which will soon be published and is a continuation of my post-doctoral research at Harvard, investigates the adjudication of transsexuals, clones and gametes in Islamic law, and surveys a range of opinions from Iran, Iraq and Lebanon on how these “othered,” “altered” and non-normative bodies should be conceived, assembled, reproduced, and judged in legal terms, fatwa documents, and physical reality. Details on this stimulating conference are below…
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CASAR Sexual Sovereignty: Hosted by Keynote speakers:
Date: 13-15 March 2013 |
