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The Walled Wife /

"Nicelle Davis's The Walled Wife unearths from the long-standing text "The Ballad of the Walled-up Wife," a host of issues that continue to plague women in the contemporary world: the woman's body as sacrifice; the woman's body as tender or currency; the woman's bo...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Davis, Nicelle (Nicelle Christine), 1979- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Pasadena, CA : Red Hen Press, [2016]
Édition:First edition.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:"Nicelle Davis's The Walled Wife unearths from the long-standing text "The Ballad of the Walled-up Wife," a host of issues that continue to plague women in the contemporary world: the woman's body as sacrifice; the woman's body as tender or currency; the woman's body as disposable; the woman's body as property; the woman's body as aesthetic object; the woman's body unsafe in the world she must inhabit, and in the hands of the people she loves"--
Description matérielle:1 online resource.
ISBN:9781597095860