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Title Words, not swords : Iranian women writers and the freedom of movement / Farzaneh Milani
Imprint Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2011

LIBRARY / MAP CALL NUMBER STATUS MESSAGE
 Stadsbibl:Ljusets kalender vån 2 Litteraturvetenskap & författarbiografier  891.55 engelska    CHECK SHELF  ---
 Malmö stadsarkiv:Dawit Isaak-biblioteket  891.55 engelska    DUE 24-04-18  ---
Edition 1. ed
Descript xxiv, 345 p. ; 24 cm
Series Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East
Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East
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
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
Litteraturvetenskap -- författare -- Iran
Film
Representation
Kvinnobilden
Kvinnorollen
Persisk litteratur -- kvinnliga författare
Persisk litteratur -- historia
Feminism och litteratur -- Iran
Persian literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
Persian literature -- History and criticism
Women authors, Iranian
Muslim women in literature
Purdah in literature
Social control in literature
Women in literature
Women in motion pictures
Women and literature -- Iran
Feminism and literature -- Iran
Classmark 891.55099287
Add Title Iranian women writers and the freedom of movement
ISBN/ISSN 9780815632788
0815632789
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