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polychrome |
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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"-- Provided by publisher. |
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"The Madonna/whore trope, familiar to anyone who is familiar with the Bible or really, any of the many centuries of cautionary tales written about women's sexuality, is usually seen as a Western construction. In Unveiling Desire,Devaleena Das and Colette Morrow show that unfortunately, the duality of the fallen/saved woman is also prevalent in Eastern culture, specifically in the literature and films of the culture. 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, all original to the volume, 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, and how, by focusing on a wider definition of women's sexuality and agency, the reader can gain a better understanding of how to read these Eastern works"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Foreword / El-Saadawi, Nawal -- Introduction / Das, Devaleena / Morrow, Colette -- Part I: Chastity, Fidelity, and Women's Cross-Cultural Encounters -- 1. Feminist Neoimperialism in Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis / Morrow, Colette -- 2. The Forgotten Women of 1971: Bangladesh's Failure to Remember Rape Victims of the Liberation War / Azim, Firdous -- 3. Fragmented State, Fragmented Women: Reading Gender, Reading History in Partition Fiction / Halder, Paramita -- 4. The Trope of the "Fallen Women" in the Fiction of Bangladeshi Women Writers / Khan, Hafiza Nilofar -- Part II: Forbidden Desires and Misogynist Enculturation -- 5. Polyamorous Draupadi: Adharma or Emancipation? / Das, Devaleena -- 6. Damaged Goods! Managed Gods! Indian Cinema's Virtuous Hierarchies / Gangar, Amrit -- 7. Roop Taraashi: Sex, Culture, Violence, Impersonation, and the Politics of the Inner Sanctum / Dey, Naina -- Part III: Political Economy and Questioning Tradition in the Far East -- 8. More Than Just an Exchange of Fluids: Southeast Asian Prostitutes and the Western Sexual Economy / Betty, Louis -- 9. Representing Bad Women in Wu Zetian Si Da Qi'An: Political Criticism in Late Qing Crime Fiction / Benedetti, Lavinia -- 10. The Problematic Maternal in Moto Hagio's Graphic Fiction: An Analysis of "Iguana Girl" / Kuribayashi, Tomoko -- Part IV: Unchaste Goddesses and Transgressive Women in a Turbulent Nation -- 11. A Dark Goddess for a Fallen World: Mapping Apocalypse in Some of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee's Novels / Malhotra, Meenakshi -- 12. Desire and Dharma: A Study of the Representation of Fallen Women in the Novels of Bankim Chandra / Biswas, Chandrani -- 13. The Fallen Woman in Bengali Literature: Binodini Dasi and Tagore's Chokher Bali / Chakravarty, Radha -- Part V: The Moral Frontiers of Lesbianism in the East -- 14. Shaking the Throne of God: Muslim Women Writers Who Dared / Jussawalla, Feroza -- 15. Homoeroticism and Reaccessing the Idea of "Fallen Woman" in Keval Sood's Murgikhana / Sharma Chanana, Kuhu -- Afterword / Das, Devaleena / Morrow, Colette -- Contributors -- Index |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Women -- Sexual behavior -- Orient.
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Women -- Sexual behavior. |
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Draper. |
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Femmes fatales -- Orient.
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Femmes fatales. |
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Symbolism -- Orient.
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Symbolism. |
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Electronic books.
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Das, Devaleena, 1983-
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Morrow, Colette.
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Print version: Unveiling desire New Brunswick, Camden : Rutgers University Press, 2018 9780813587851 (DLC) 2017012773 |
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9780813587875 (electronic book) |
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0813587875 (electronic book) |
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9780813587868 electronic book |
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0813587867 electronic book |
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9780813587851 hardcover |
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