Maryam’s Reviews > Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity > Status Update

Men at once desired heterosociality of the modern and yet would not surrender the privileged masculinity of the streets.

As woman moved from a homosocial female world into a heterosocial public space, before the physical veil could be discarded it was replaced by an invisible metaphoric veil, or veil of chastity.