Words, Not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement
(Part of the Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East Series)
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0815632789
ISBN13:9780815632788
Release Date:May 2011
Publisher:Syracuse University Press
Length:372 Pages
Weight:1.50 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"
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