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Elusive lives : gender, autobiography, and the self in Muslim South Asia /
Muslim South Asia is widely characterized as a culture that idealizes female anonymity: women's bodies are veiled and their voices silenced. Challenging these perceptions, the author highlights an elusive strand of autobiographical writing dating back several centuries that offers a new lens th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
2018.
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| Colección: | South Asia in Motion Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Muslim South Asia is widely characterized as a culture that idealizes female anonymity: women's bodies are veiled and their voices silenced. Challenging these perceptions, the author highlights an elusive strand of autobiographical writing dating back several centuries that offers a new lens through which to study notions of selfhood. In this book, she locates the voices of Muslim women who rejected taboos against women speaking out, by telling their life stories in written autobiography. To chart patterns, materials dated from the sixteenth century to the present are drawn from across South Asia - including present-day India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781503606524 150360652X |