Unveiling Desire

“Unveiling Desire’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.”
  -- Amy Levin * editor of Global Mobilities: Refugees, Exiles, and Immigrants in Museums and Archives *
“Unveiling Desire 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.” -- Krupa Shandilya * author of Intimate Relations: Social Reform and the Late Nineteenth-Century South Asian Novel *
"Enhanced for academia, Unveiling Desire: Fallen Women in Literature, Culture, and Films of the East is an especially and unreservedly recommended addition to college and university library Women's Studies, Asian Studies, Literary Studies, Film/Media Studies collections."  * Midwest Book Review *
"Weekly Book List, April 20, 2018" by Nina Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education *
"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." * Women's Studies *
"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." * RGWS: A Feminist Review *