#  Afsaneh Najmabadi Wins Feminist History Prize 

 





October 24, 2014

 

 

   ![cover image from Afsaneh Najmabadi's book, Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran](/sites/g/files/omnuum8271/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/wgs/files/najmabadi_professingselves.jpg?itok=kuSmsRU2) 

 

[*Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran*](https://www.dukeupress.edu/Professing-Selves/index.html), the latest book from WGS's [Afsaneh Najmabadi](/people/afsaneh-najmabadi), has received the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize from the American Historical Society. Established in 1984, [the prize](http://www.historians.org/awards-and-grants/awards-and-prizes/joan-kelly-memorial-prize) honors the year's "most outstanding book in women’s history and/or feminist theory."Najmabadi's previous book, *[Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity](http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520242630)*, received the Kelly Prize in 2005. Along with Gail Hershatter of University of California, Santa Cruz, she is one of only two historians to win the prize twice.



 

 

 



 

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