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Words, not swords : Iranian women writers and the freedom of movement /

"Words, Not Swords explores the legacy of sex segregation and its manifestations in Iranian literature and film and in notions of beauty and the erotics of passivity. Milani expands her argument beyond Iranian culture, arguing that freedom of movement is a theme that crosses frontiers and disso...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Milani, Farzaneh
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2011.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: keeping women in their place
  • A legacy of containment
  • Enclosed bodies, trapped voices, framed images: the poetics of sex segregation
  • The bonds of beauty: immobilizing the ideal woman in Iranian literature
  • Pardeh Neshin, or "she who sits behind the screen": the spatial politics of Iranian cinema
  • Wings and words
  • Badasht and Seneca Falls: Taririh Qurratulayn and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Icarus reborn: captivity and flight in the work of Forugh Farrokhzad
  • The gypsy poet: fluidity and flux in the poetry of Simin Behbahani
  • Women on the road: Shahrnush Parsipur and the conference of female birds
  • Prisoners awaiting liberation
  • Reading and misreading Iranian women in the United States: on abducted daughters, incarcerated girls, and invisible women
  • Epilogue: words as ambassadors of peace and beacons of hope.