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

Author
Milani, Farzaneh [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/​Created
Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2011.
Description
xxiv, 345 p. ; 24 cm.

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    Subject(s)
    Series
    Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East [More in this series]
    Bibliographic references
    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.
    Other title(s)
    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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