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Words, not swords : Iranian women writers and the freedom of movement Cover Image Book Book

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

Milani, Farzaneh. (Author).

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  • ISBN: 9780815632788 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 0815632789 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: print
    xxiv, 345 p. ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2011.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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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      Headquarters Library 		891.55 MILANI, FARZANEH ( Send Text)
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