Elusive Lives: Gender, Autobiography, and the Self in Muslim South Asia
(Part of the South Asia in Motion Series)
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Muslim South Asia is widely characterized as a culture that idealizes female anonymity: women's bodies are veiled and their voices silenced. Challenging these perceptions, Siobhan Lambert-Hurley highlights an elusive strand of autobiographical writing dating back several centuries that offers a new lens through which to study notions of selfhood. In Elusive Lives , she locates the voices of Muslim women who rejected taboos against women speaking out,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1503606511
ISBN13:9781503606517
Release Date:July 2018
Publisher:Stanford University Press
Length:296 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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