Homogenization Gender and Everyday Life in Pre- and Trans-modern Iran: An Archaeological
Reading is actually an effort to investigate the interaction of power structure and gender in
the context of everyday life in Iran in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The book pursues two
main goals: situating gender in Iranian archaeology and calling for more consideration to daily
life in archaeological gender researches. Drawing on a wide range of material culture textual
evidence statistics and oral accounts all chapters render the destruction of the everyday
life of ordinary people. Events like parties and ceremonies marriage and kinship sexual
practices dress codes and even eating and drinking were gently regulated by the surveillance
state. Accordingly the term homogenization in the book's Title refers to the policies of the
Pahlavi government the first Iranian modern centralized state. In this way the book seeks to
understand the process of gender and sexual transformationof Iranian society the process which
resulted in the Production of deviants and negative gender and sexual lives.Being the first
archaeological research on gender by native archaeologists the authors state the fact that
this book investigates the politics of gender while many other aspects of gender remain still
uninvestigated.
