Iranian gender/sexual politics

Last night I attended a talk by Marjane Satrapi, an Iranian woman who was in Milwaukee as part of her U.S. book tour for her latest work, Embroideries, which explores the gender/sexual politics in contemporary Iran. I will come back to this post and say more about the book and her talk; for now, however, here's a recent interview she did with the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel about the book, as well as her previous ones, Persepolis and Persepolis II.