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Words, not swords : Iranian women writers and the freedom of movement / Farzaneh Milani.
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Milani, Farzaneh
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English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/Created
Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2011.
Description
xxiv, 345 p. ; 24 cm.
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PK6413.5.W65 M55 2011
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Subject(s)
Persian literature
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Women authors
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History and criticism
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Persian literature
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History and criticism
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Women authors, Iranian
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Muslim women in literature
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Purdah in literature
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Social control in literature
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Women in literature
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Women in motion pictures
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Women and literature
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Iran
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Feminism and literature
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Iran
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Series
Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
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Iranian women writers and the freedom of movement
ISBN
9780815632788 (cloth : alk. paper)
0815632789 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2011005040
OCLC
681500659
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