Unveiling Desire : Fallen Women in Literature, Culture, and Films of the East /

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"The Madonna/whore trope, familiar to anyone who is familiar with the Bible or really, any of the many centuries of cautionary tales written about women's sexuality, is usually seen as a Western construction. In Unveiling Desire,Devaleena Das and Colette Morrow show that unfortunately, the...

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Otros Autores: Morrow, Colette, Das, Devaleena
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women > Sexual behavior.
Symbolism.
Femmes fatales.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General.
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies.
Femmes > Sexualite > Orient.
Symbolism > Orient.
Femmes fatales > Orient.
Women > Sexual behavior > Orient.
Asia > Orient.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Foreword / El-Saadawi, Nawal
  • Introduction / Das, Devaleena / Morrow, Colette
  • Part I: Chastity, Fidelity, and Women's Cross-Cultural Encounters
  • 1. Feminist Neoimperialism in Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis / Morrow, Colette
  • 2. The Forgotten Women of 1971: Bangladesh's Failure to Remember Rape Victims of the Liberation War / Azim, Firdous
  • 3. Fragmented State, Fragmented Women: Reading Gender, Reading History in Partition Fiction / Halder, Paramita
  • 4. The Trope of the "Fallen Women" in the Fiction of Bangladeshi Women Writers / Khan, Hafiza Nilofar
  • Part II: Forbidden Desires and Misogynist Enculturation
  • 5. Polyamorous Draupadi: Adharma or Emancipation? / Das, Devaleena
  • 6. Damaged Goods! Managed Gods! Indian Cinema's Virtuous Hierarchies / Gangar, Amrit
  • 7. Roop Taraashi: Sex, Culture, Violence, Impersonation, and the Politics of the Inner Sanctum / Dey, Naina
  • Part III: Political Economy and Questioning Tradition in the Far East
  • 8. More Than Just an Exchange of Fluids: Southeast Asian Prostitutes and the Western Sexual Economy / Betty, Louis
  • 9. Representing Bad Women in Wu Zetian Si Da Qi'An: Political Criticism in Late Qing Crime Fiction / Benedetti, Lavinia
  • 10. The Problematic Maternal in Moto Hagio's Graphic Fiction: An Analysis of "Iguana Girl" / Kuribayashi, Tomoko
  • Part IV: Unchaste Goddesses and Transgressive Women in a Turbulent Nation
  • 11. A Dark Goddess for a Fallen World: Mapping Apocalypse in Some of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee's Novels / Malhotra, Meenakshi
  • 12. Desire and Dharma: A Study of the Representation of Fallen Women in the Novels of Bankim Chandra / Biswas, Chandrani
  • 13. The Fallen Woman in Bengali Literature: Binodini Dasi and Tagore's Chokher Bali / Chakravarty, Radha
  • Part V: The Moral Frontiers of Lesbianism in the East
  • 14. Shaking the Throne of God: Muslim Women Writers Who Dared / Jussawalla, Feroza
  • 15. Homoeroticism and Reaccessing the Idea of "Fallen Woman" in Keval Sood's Murgikhana / Sharma Chanana, Kuhu
  • Afterword / Das, Devaleena / Morrow, Colette
  • Contributors
  • Index

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