Edition |
1. ed |
Descript |
xxiv, 345 p. ; 24 cm |
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Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East
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Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East
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Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pp. 303-321) and index |
Content |
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 |
Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pp. 303-321) and index |
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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 |
Subject |
Dawit Isaak-biblioteket
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Litteraturvetenskap -- författare -- Iran
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Film
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Representation
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Kvinnobilden
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Kvinnorollen
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Persisk litteratur -- kvinnliga författare
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Persisk litteratur -- historia
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Feminism och litteratur -- Iran
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Persian literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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Persian literature -- 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 -- Iran
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Feminism and literature -- Iran
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Classmark |
891.55099287
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Add Title |
Iranian women writers and the freedom of movement |
ISBN/ISSN |
9780815632788 |
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0815632789 |
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