Unveiling Desire

DEVALEENA DAS is a lecturer in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. COLETTE MORROW is an associate professor of English at Purdue University, Northwest in Hammond, Indiana. She is the co-editor (with Terri Ann Frederick) of the reader Getting in is Not Enough: Women and the Global Workplace, and a former president of the National Women's Studies Association.  

CONTENTS

Foreword
Nawal El-Saadawi
 
Introduction
Devaleena Das and Colette Morrow
 
Part One: Chastity, Fidelity and Women’s Cross-Cultural Encounters
1. Feminist Neo-Imperialism in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis
              Colette Morrow
 
2. The Forgotten Women of 1971: Bangladesh’s Failure to Remember Rape Victims of the Liberation War
           Firdous Azim
 
3. Fragmented State, Fragmented Women: Reading Gender, Reading History in Partition Fiction
             Paramita Halder
 
4. The Trope of the “Fallen Women” in the Fiction of Bangladeshi Women Writers
             Hafiza Nilofar Khan
 
Part Two: Forbidden Desires and Misogynist Enculturation   
5. Polyamorous Draupadi: Adharma or Emancipation?
          Devaleena Das
 
6. Damaged Goods! Managed Gods!  Indian Cinema’s Virtuous Hierarchies
            Amrit Gangar
 
7. Roop Taraashi: Sex, Culture, Violence, Impersonation and the Politics of the Inner Sanctum
             Naina Dey
 
Part Three: Political Economy and Questioning Tradition in the Far East
8. More Than an Exchange of Fluids: Thai Prostitutes and the Western Sexual Economy
           Louis Betty
 
9. Representing Bad Women in Wu Zetian Si Da Qi’An: Political Criticism in Late Qing Crime Fiction
           Lavinia Benedetti
 
10. The Problematic Maternal in Moto Hagio’s Graphic Fiction: An Analysis of “Iguana Daughter”
          Tomoko Kuribayashi
 
Part Four: Unchaste Goddesses and Transgressive Women in a Turbulent Nation
11. A Dark Goddess for a Fallen World: Mapping Apocalypse in some of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee's Novels
            Meenakshi Malhotra
 
12. Desire and Dharma: A Study of the Representation of Fallen Women in the Novels of Bankim Chandra
           Chandrani Biswas
 
13. The Fallen Woman in Bengali Literature: Binodini Dasi and Tagore’s Chokher Bali
         Radha Chakravarty
 
Part Five: The Moral Frontiers of Lesbianism in the East     
14. Shaking the Throne of God: Muslim Women Writers Who Dared
        Feroza Jussawalla
 
15. Homoeroticism and Re-accessing the Idea of ‘Fallen Woman’ in Keval Sood’s Murgikhana
       Kuhu Sharma Chanana
 
Afterword
Contributors
Index