Veils and Words - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Veils and Words write by Farzaneh Milani. This book was released on 1992. Veils and Words available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first book in any language about the writing of women in Iran. For centuries any sense that there could be a literary tradition among women was suppressed. Since the middle of the 19th century, however, a number a of pioneering women have defied the traditional order to produce poetry and novels of the highest quality; but many of them have paid for their courage with accusations of immorality, promiscuity, heresy and even lunacy.
Veils and Words
Veils and Words - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Veils and Words write by Farzaneh Milani. This book was released on 1992-09-01. Veils and Words available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "From Library Journal : Traditionally, Iranian women have been veiled from public view and constrained from public expression. Milani illustrates that in Iran the 19th-century movement to unveil was closely linked to women's emergence as literary figures. This, the first work devoted to the rich literature of the female writers of Iran, is itself an example of great literature from an Iranian female writer. With poetic insight, Milani dis cusses the themes of disclosure and secrecy that have delineated the Iranian woman's universe and characterized her expression. Highly recommended for all literature, anthropology, and women's studies collections."--Amazon.ca.
Words, Not Swords
Words, Not Swords - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Words, Not Swords write by Farzaneh Milani. This book was released on 2011-05-16. Words, Not Swords available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 spell has been broken and Iranian women have emerged as a moderating, modernizing force. Women writers have been at the forefront of this desegregating movement and renegotiation of boundaries. Words, Not Swords explores the legacy of sex segregation and its manifestations in Iranian literature and film and in notions of beauty and the erotics of passivity. Milani expands her argument beyond Iranian culture, arguing that freedom of movement is a theme that crosses frontiers and dissolves conventional distinctions of geography, history, and religion. She makes bold connections between veiling and foot binding, between Cinderella and Barbie, between the figures of the female Gypsy and the witch. In so doing, she challenges cultural hierarchies that divert attention from key issues in the control of women across the globe.
Veils
Veils - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Veils write by Nahid Rachlin. This book was released on 1992-05. Veils available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The ten stories in Veils take place in present-day Iran or in the United States where Iranian immigrants face alien ways. Teheran's ancient Ghanat Abad Avenue, with its labyrinth of narrow streets and alleys, loosely links the stories into a single narrative: some residents leave as soon as they can, others can live nowhere else. The men and women in these spare and sensuous narratives who are caught in the confusing whirl of changing cultures sometimes meet with failure but more often transcend difficult circumstances to gain deeper self-knowledge.
The Veil
The Veil - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Veil write by Jennifer Heath. This book was released on 2008. The Veil available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Veiling is a globally polarizing issue, a locus for the struggle between Islam and the West and between contemporary and traditional interpretations of Islam. This book examines the vastly misunderstood and multi-layered world of the veil. It explores and analyzes the cultures, politics, and histories of veiling.
