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Article: Wearing, Alison. Honeymoon in purdah; an Iranian journey.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
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- March 1, 2002
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St. Martin's, Picador. 322p. map. c2000. 0-312-26344-9. $14.00. SA
Wearing and her gay friend Ian, with Canadian passport and fake marriage license in hand, traveled Iran for five months in 1995, almost 20 years after the Shah's departure and six years after the death of the Ayatollah Khomeini. Their purpose was to touch the people of the country. Wearing produced, from that experience, a series of personal essays that will be of great interest to students of the Middle East and women's studies, and to the ordinary reader who is curious about the people in a part of the world that has burst into our consciousness. She vividly characterizes a people who are ...