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Unveiling Desire - Fallen Women in Literature, Culture, and Films of the East (Paperback)
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Unveiling Desire - Fallen Women in Literature, Culture, and Films of the East (Paperback)
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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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