Unveiling Desire: Fallen Women in Literature, Culture, and Films of the East (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813587844)

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Unveiling Desire: Fallen Women in Literature, Culture, and Films of the East

$45.95

Unveiling Desire: Fallen Women in Literature, Culture, and Films of the East

$45.95
Format: Paperback
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In Unveiling Desire, Devaleena Das and Colette Morrow show that the duality of the fallen/saved woman is as prevalent in Eastern culture as it is in the West, specifically in literature and films. Using examples from the Middle to Far East, including Iran, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Thailand, Japan, and China, this anthology challenges the fascination with Eastern women as passive, abject, or sexually exotic, but also resists the temptation to then focus on the veil, geisha, sati, or Muslim women's oppression without exploring Eastern women's sexuality beyond these contexts. The chapters cover instead mind/body sexual politics, patriarchal cultural constructs, the anatomy of sex and power in relation to myth and culture, denigration of female anatomy, and gender performativity. From Persepolis to Bollywood, and from fairy tales to crime fiction, the contributors to Unveiling Desire show how the struggle for women's liberation is truly global.

Author: Devaleena Das
ISBN-10: 0813587840
ISBN-13: 9780813587844
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/16/2018
Pages: 298
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d
By Devaleena Das
By Devaleena Das
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DEVALEENA DAS is a lecturer in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

COLETTE MORROW is an associate professor of English at Purdue University, Northwest in Hammond, Indiana. She is the co-editor (with Terri Ann Frederick) of the reader Getting in is Not Enough: Women and the Global Workplace, and a former president of the National Women's Studies Association.

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