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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Words, not swords

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

681500659

Responsibility statement

Farzaneh Milani

Series statement

Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East

Sub title

Iranian women writers and the freedom of movement

Table Of 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

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Iranian women writers and the freedom of movement

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