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:
- xxiv, 345 pages ; 24 cm.
- Series:
- 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: Tahirih Qurratul'Ayn 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(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780815632788 (cloth : alk. paper)
0815632789 (cloth : alk. paper) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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