Unveiling Desire: Fallen Women in Literature, Culture, and Films of the East - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 0813587840 ISBN 13 : 9780813587844

Editeur : Rutgers University Press, 2018

Synopsis

In Unveiling Desire, Devaleena Das and Colette Morrow show that the duality of the fallen/saved woman is as prevalent in Eastern culture as it is in the West, specifically in literature and films. Using examples from the Middle to Far East, including Iran, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Thailand, Japan, and China, this anthology challenges the fascination with Eastern women as passive, abject, or sexually exotic, but also resists the temptation to then focus on the veil, geisha, sati, or Muslim women's oppression without exploring Eastern women's sexuality beyond these contexts. The chapters cover instead mind/body sexual politics, patriarchal cultural constructs, the anatomy of sex and power in relation to myth and culture, denigration of female anatomy, and gender performativity. From Persepolis to Bollywood, and from fairy tales to crime fiction, the contributors to Unveiling Desire show how the struggle for women's liberation is truly global.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

DEVALEENA DAS is a lecturer in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

COLETTE MORROW is an associate professor of English at Purdue University, Northwest in Hammond, Indiana. She is the co-editor (with Terri Ann Frederick) of the reader Getting in is Not Enough: Women and the Global Workplace, and a former president of the National Women's Studies Association.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rutgers University Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0813587840
• ISBN 13: 9780813587844
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 298
• Éditeur: Das Devaleena, Morrow Colette
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible