[PDF.18iq] Words Not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement (Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East)

Words Not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement (Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East)

[PDF.jz63] Words Not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement (Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East)

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 | #2355372 in Books |  Syracuse University Press |  2011-05-16 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.30 x1.10 x6.30l,1.44 | File type: PDF | 345 pages

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||8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| An important book!|By lit-in-the-last-frontier|Quick Version:

A brief survey of women in the arts, writing in particular, in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and how their political climate affects their portrayal and their voice.

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I was drawn to review this book for two reasons. First among them, political Islam is an area I studied,|About the Author|Farzaneh Milani is professor of Persian Literature and Studies in Women and Gender at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Veils and Words: The Emerging Voice of Iranian Women Writers and the coeditor and translator of A Cup of Sin:

A woman not only needs a room of her own, as Virginia Woolf wrote, but also the freedom to leave it and return to it at will; for a room without that right becomes a prison cell. The privilege of self-directed movement, the power to pick up and go as one pleases, has not been a traditional "right" of Iranian women. This prerogative has been denied them in the name of piety, anatomy, chastity, class, safety, and even beauty. It is only during the last 160 years that the s...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Words Not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement (Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East)   |  Farzaneh Milani. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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