Words, Not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement

by Farzaneh Milani

Book Overview

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"