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

Author
Milani, Farzaneh
Additional Titles
Iranian women writers and the freedom of movement
Published
Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2011.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxiv, 345 pages).
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Language Note
English.
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.
Summary
"Words, Not Swords explores the legacy of sex segregation and its manifestations in Iranian literature and film and in notions of beauty and the erotics of passivity. Milani expands her argument beyond Iranian culture, arguing that freedom of movement is a theme that crosses frontiers and dissolves conventional distinctions of geography, history, and religion. She makes bold connections between veiling and foot binding, between Cinderella and Barbie, between the figures of the female Gypsy and the witch. In so doing, she challenges cultural hierarchies that divert attention from key issues in the control of women across the globe."
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ISBN
9780815651604 (electronic bk.)
0815651600 (electronic bk.)
9780815632788 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0815632789 (cloth ; alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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