{"product_id":"elusive-lives-siobhan-lambert-hurley-9781503606517","title":"Elusive Lives: Gender, Autobiography, and the Self in Muslim South Asia","description":"\u003cp\u003eMuslim South Asia is widely characterized as a culture that idealizes female anonymity: women's bodies are veiled and their voices silenced. Challenging these perceptions, Siobhan Lambert-Hurley highlights an elusive strand of autobiographical writing dating back several centuries that offers a new lens through which to study notions of selfhood. In \u003ci\u003eElusive Lives\u003c\/i\u003e, she locates the voices of Muslim women who rejected taboos against women speaking out, by telling their life stories in written autobiography. To chart patterns across time and space, materials dated from the sixteenth century to the present are drawn from across South Asia - including present-day India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Lambert-Hurley uses many rare autobiographical texts in a wide array of languages, including Urdu, English, Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Punjabi and Malayalam to elaborate a theoretical model for gender, autobiography, and the self beyond the usual Euro-American frame. In doing so, she works toward a new, globalized history of the field. Ultimately, \u003ci\u003eElusive Lives\u003c\/i\u003e points to the sheer diversity of Muslim women's lives and life stories, offering a unique window into a history of the everyday against a backdrop of imperialism, reformism, nationalism and feminism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Siobhan Lambert-Hurley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1503606511\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781503606517\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/31\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d","brand":"Siobhan Lambert-Hurley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45481954050303,"sku":"9781503606517","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d35021ff-1a2b-4d95-a11a-83599320ba71.jpg?v=1715988157","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/elusive-lives-siobhan-lambert-hurley-9781503606517","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}