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The politics of style: ideology, fashion, and popular culture in Iran from 1965 to 1979

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This thesis examines the intersection of ideology, popular culture, and style in Iran from 1965 to 1979. This period saw a drastic shift in Iranian beauty standards, with prevalent aesthetic standards inching closer to Euro-American markers of beauty as opposed to indigenous beauty standards already entrenched within the culture. This aesthetic shift also happened to be closely bound to the ideology purveyed by the White Revolution, which sought to modernize Iran by way of westernization. ...

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HUMS
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Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
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University of Oxford
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HUMS
Department:
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Role:
Supervisor


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DPhil
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Doctoral
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University of Oxford

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