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050 00 $aPK6413.5.W65$bM55 2011
082 00 $a891/.55099287$222
100 1 $aMilani, Farzaneh.
245 10 $aWords, not swords :$bIranian women writers and the freedom of movement /$cFarzaneh Milani.
246 30 $aIranian women writers and the freedom of movement
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aSyracuse, N.Y. :$bSyracuse University Press,$c2011.
300 $axxiv, 345 p. ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aGender, culture, and politics in the Middle East
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: 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.
650 0 $aPersian literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aPersian literature$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aWomen authors, Iranian.
650 0 $aMuslim women in literature.
650 0 $aPurdah in literature.
650 0 $aSocial control in literature.
650 0 $aWomen in literature.
650 0 $aWomen in motion pictures.
650 0 $aWomen and literature$zIran.
650 0 $aFeminism and literature$zIran.
830 0 $aGender, culture, and politics in the Middle East.
852 00 $bglx$hPK6413.5.W65$iM55 2011g
852 00 $bbar$hPK6413.5.W65$iM55 2011g