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Professing Selves is one of the best recent works on contemporary Iran. Arguing that transsexuals' legal and psychiatric negotiations reveal more general processes of proceduralism, negotiation of legal categories, and state formation, Afsaneh Najmabadi challenges
the lumping of transsexuals and homosexuals as identical human rights issues, and argues that poorly targeted universalistic campaigns can damage the conditions of life for the people they are intended to help. She works refreshingly at the level of real
lives, jurists, and psychiatrists. <br>
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<b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black; font-family: Optima, serif; ">Professor Afsaneh Najmabadi</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Optima, serif; ">An author talk with Professor <b>Afsaneh Najmabadi</b>, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and
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