Activist, Professional, Family Man: Masculinities in Marjane Satrapiâs Work

Nagihan HaliloÄlu

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Activist, Professional, Family Man: Masculinities in Marjane Satrapiâs Work

In: Studies on Iran and The Caucasus

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Pages:: 495â505

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004302068_032

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This study aims to explore the trajectory of the meanings of masculinity from pre-revolution to post-revolution Iran, as represented in Marjane Satrapiâs work. Both Chicken with Plums and Persepolis are autobiographical works that chart her relationship with male members of her middle class family and country at large before, through and after the revolution. She provides a nuanced understanding of masculinity that recognizes plurality and hierarchy- men as lay people, as members of a family, as practioners of art, within a historical context. In both her memoirs men and women suffer from ideals of manhood and womanhood presented to them, calling into question whether men are beneficiaries of the patriarchal order of the pre or post-revolution Iran. Satrapi demonstrates how the most important building block of masculinity has changed, from class and professional membership to piety in post-revolution Iran. She also exposes masculinityâs core element to be self-sacrifice. It is the regime, capitalist or Islamist, that seems to decide for what those sacrifices are to be made. However, Satrapi tries to salvage an understanding of masculinity that has honour and comradeship at its core and acquaints the reader with practitioners of this gender model as she would have it be.

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Studies on Iran and The Caucasus

In Honour of Garnik Asatrian

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Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2015

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