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Unveiling Desire

Fallen Women in Literature, Culture, and Films of the East

Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick NJ, United States
Published: 16th Jan 2018
Dimensions: w 156mm h 235mm d 20mm
Weight: 440g
Interest age: From 18 to 99 years
ISBN-10: 0813587840
ISBN-13: 9780813587844
Barcode No: 9780813587844
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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.

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