{"product_id":"unveiling-desire-fallen-women-in-literature-culture-and-films-of-the-east-hardback-9780813587851","title":"Unveiling Desire; Fallen Women in Literature, Culture, and Films of the East (Hardback) 9780813587851","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eUnveiling Desire\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFallen Women in Literature, Culture, and Films of the East\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDevaleena Das (Edited by), Colette Morrow (Edited by), Nawal El-Saadawi (Foreword by), Devaleena Das (Contributions by), Colette Morrow (Contributions by), Firdous Azim (Contributions by), Paramita Halder (Contributions by), Hafiza Nilofar Khan (Contributions by), Amrit Gangar (Contributions by), Naina Dey (Contributions by), Louis Betty (Contributions by), Lavinia Benedetti (Contributions by), Tomoko Kuribayashi (Contributions by), Meenakshi Malhotra (Contributions by), Chandrani Biswas (Contributions by), Radha Chakravarty (Contributions by), Feroza Jussawalla (Contributions by), Kuhu Sharma Chanana (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813587851\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 16 January 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e298 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 2.1 cm, 0.524 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eUnveiling Desire\u003c\/i\u003e’s greatest contribution is its exploration of the nexus of Eastern and Western feminisms. Readers will discover how the trope of the fallen woman appears in a fascinating array of texts, engaging themes of female agency, colonialism, nationalism, and patriarchal traditions.”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e - Amy Levin (editor of Global Mobilities: Refugees, Exiles, and Immigrants in Museums and Archives) \u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eUnveiling Desire\u003c\/i\u003e is an excellent book-length study of non-Western women’s sexuality and sexual desires that provides a much-needed corrective to Western feminist Orientalisms and their attendant chauvinisms. Breathtaking in its scope-from the nineteenth-century Bengali widow in South Asia to sex workers in Tokugawa-era Japan-this collection of essays is a must read for anyone interested in gender, sexuality, and feminism.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Krupa Shandilya (author of Intimate Relations: Social Reform and the Late Nineteenth-Century South Asian Novel) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Enhanced for academia,\u003ci\u003e Unveiling Desire: Fallen Women in Literature, Culture, and Films of the East\u003c\/i\u003e is an especially and unreservedly recommended addition to college and university library Women's Studies, Asian Studies, Literary Studies, Film\/Media Studies collections.\" \u003c\/div\u003e (Midwest Book Review) \u003cdiv\u003e\u003ca href='\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/Weekly-Book-List-April-20\/243116\"'\u003e\"Weekly Book List, April 20, 2018\" by Nina Ayoub\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e (Chronicle of Higher Education) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Offers a vibrant and valuable addition the field, with case studies and insights that are fresh and pertinent. The reader will become better acquainted with more than just the trope of the fallen women in non-Western culture; he or she will learn more about the lives, the experiences, the intellectual and affective history, as well as the rich complexity of Eastern women.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Women's Studies) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Without this important book, many of the texts that are analyzed would be lost in a canon that all too often privileges Eurocentric perspectives and concerns.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (RGWS: A Feminist Review) \u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eUnveiling Desire\u003c\/i\u003e’s greatest contribution is its exploration of the nexus of Eastern and Western feminisms. Readers will discover how the trope of the fallen woman appears in a fascinating array of texts, engaging themes of female agency, colonialism, nationalism, and patriarchal traditions.”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e - Amy Levin (editor of Global Mobilities: Refugees, Exiles, and Immigrants in Museums and Archives) \u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eUnveiling Desire\u003c\/i\u003e is an excellent book-length study of non-Western women’s sexuality and sexual desires that provides a much-needed corrective to Western feminist Orientalisms and their attendant chauvinisms. Breathtaking in its scope-from the nineteenth-century Bengali widow in South Asia to sex workers in Tokugawa-era Japan-this collection of essays is a must read for anyone interested in gender, sexuality, and feminism.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Krupa Shandilya (author of Intimate Relations: Social Reform and the Late Nineteenth-Century South Asian Novel) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Enhanced for academia,\u003ci\u003e Unveiling Desire: Fallen Women in Literature, Culture, and Films of the East\u003c\/i\u003e is an especially and unreservedly recommended addition to college and university library Women's Studies, Asian Studies, Literary Studies, Film\/Media Studies collections.\" \u003c\/div\u003e (Midwest Book Review) \u003cdiv\u003e\u003ca href='\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/Weekly-Book-List-April-20\/243116\"'\u003e\"Weekly Book List, April 20, 2018\" by Nina Ayoub\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e (Chronicle of Higher Education) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Offers a vibrant and valuable addition the field, with case studies and insights that are fresh and pertinent. The reader will become better acquainted with more than just the trope of the fallen women in non-Western culture; he or she will learn more about the lives, the experiences, the intellectual and affective history, as well as the rich complexity of Eastern women.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Women's Studies) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Without this important book, many of the texts that are analyzed would be lost in a canon that all too often privileges Eurocentric perspectives and concerns.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (RGWS: A Feminist Review)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eUnveiling Desire\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003ePersepolis\u003c\/i\u003e to Bollywood, and from fairy tales to crime fiction, the contributors to \u003ci\u003eUnveiling Desire\u003c\/i\u003e show how the struggle for women’s liberation is truly global.  \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Foreword\u003cbr\u003e Nawal El-Saadawi\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Devaleena Das and Colette Morrow\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Part One: Chastity, Fidelity and Women’\u003cbr\u003es Cross-Cultural Encounters\u003cbr\u003e 1. Feminist Neo-Imperialism in Marjane Satrapi’\u003cbr\u003es Persepolis\u003cbr\u003e               Colette Morrow\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 2. The Forgotten Women of 1971: Bangladesh’\u003cbr\u003es Failure to Remember Rape Victims of the Liberation War\u003cbr\u003e            Firdous Azim\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 3. Fragmented State, Fragmented Women: Reading Gender, Reading History in Partition Fiction\u003cbr\u003e              Paramita Halder\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 4. The Trope of the “\u003cbr\u003eFallen Women”\u003cbr\u003e in the Fiction of Bangladeshi Women Writers\u003cbr\u003e              Hafiza Nilofar Khan\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Part Two: Forbidden Desires and Misogynist Enculturation   \u003cbr\u003e 5. Polyamorous Draupadi: Adharma or Emancipation?\u003cbr\u003e           Devaleena Das\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 6. Damaged Goods! Managed Gods!  Indian Cinema’\u003cbr\u003es Virtuous Hierarchies\u003cbr\u003e             Amrit Gangar\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 7. Roop Taraashi: Sex, Culture, Violence, Impersonation and the Politics of the Inner Sanctum\u003cbr\u003e              Naina Dey\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Part Three: Political Economy and Questioning Tradition in the Far East\u003cbr\u003e 8. More Than an Exchange of Fluids: Thai Prostitutes and the Western Sexual Economy\u003cbr\u003e            Louis Betty\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 9. Representing Bad Women in Wu Zetian Si Da Qi’\u003cbr\u003eAn: Political Criticism in Late Qing Crime Fiction\u003cbr\u003e            Lavinia Benedetti\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 10. The Problematic Maternal in Moto Hagio’\u003cbr\u003es Graphic Fiction: An Analysis of “\u003cbr\u003eIguana Daughter”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e           Tomoko Kuribayashi\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Part Four: Unchaste Goddesses and Transgressive Women in a Turbulent Nation\u003cbr\u003e 11. A Dark Goddess for a Fallen World: Mapping Apocalypse in some of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee's Novels\u003cbr\u003e             Meenakshi Malhotra\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 12. Desire and Dharma: A Study of the Representation of Fallen Women in the Novels of Bankim Chandra\u003cbr\u003e            Chandrani Biswas\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 13. The Fallen Woman in Bengali Literature: Binodini Dasi and Tagore’\u003cbr\u003es Chokher Bali\u003cbr\u003e          Radha Chakravarty\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Part Five: The Moral Frontiers of Lesbianism in the East     \u003cbr\u003e 14. Shaking the Throne of God: Muslim Women Writers Who Dared\u003cbr\u003e         Feroza Jussawalla\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 15. Homoeroticism and Re-accessing the Idea of ‘\u003cbr\u003eFallen Woman’\u003cbr\u003e in Keval Sood’\u003cbr\u003es Murgikhana\u003cbr\u003e        Kuhu Sharma Chanana\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Afterword\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e   \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52563714113816,"sku":"9780813587851","price":91.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/unveiling-desire-fallen-women-in-literature-culture-and-films-of-the-east-hardback-9780813587851","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}