Unveiling Desire

Fallen Women in Literature, Culture, and Films of the East
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-8135-8785-1
Verlag: Rutgers University Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Das, Devaleena

Morrow, Colette

Über Autor(innen)

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. She is the coeditor (with Terri Ann Frederick) of the reader Getting in is Not Enough: Women and the Global Workplace.