Part 1. Premodern practices : Formal marriage
Slave concubinage, temporary marriage, and harem wives
Class, status-defined homosexuality, and rituals of courtship
Part 2. Toward a Westernized modernity : On the road to an ethos of monogamous, heterosexual marriage
Redefining purity, unveiling bodies, and shifting desires
Imperialist politics, romantic love, and the impasse over women's suffrage
Suffrage, marriage reforms, and the threat of female sexuality
The rise of leftist guerrilla organizations and Islamist movements
Part 3. Forging an Islamist modernity and beyond : The Islamic Revolution, its sexual economy, and the Left
Islamist women and the emergence of Islamic feminism
Birth control, female sexual awakening, and the gay lifestyle
Conclusion : toward a new Muslim-Iranian sexuality for the twenty-first century.