Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Chastity, Fidelity, and Women’s Cross-Cultural Encounters
6. 1. Feminist Neoimperialism in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis 23
7. 2. The Forgotten Women of 1971: Bangladesh’s Failure to Remember Rape Victims of the Liberation War 41
8. 3. Fragmented State, Fragmented Women: Reading Gender, Reading History in Partition Fiction 59
9. 4. The Trope of the “Fallen Women” in the Fiction of Bangladeshi Women Writers 76
10. Part II: Forbidden Desires and Misogynist Enculturation
11. 5. Polyamorous Draupadi: Adharma or Emancipation? 91
12. 6. Damaged Goods! Managed Gods! Indian Cinema’s Virtuous Hierarchies 109
13. 7. Roop Taraashi: Sex, Culture, Violence, Impersonation, and the Politics of the Inner Sanctum 132
14. Part III: Political Economy and Questioning Tradition in the Far East
15. 8. More Than Just an Exchange of Fluids: Southeast Asian Prostitutes and the Western Sexual Economy 147
16. 9. Representing Bad Women in Wu Zetian Si Da Qi’An: Political Criticism in Late Qing Crime Fiction 159
17. 10. The Problematic Maternal in Moto Hagio’s Graphic Fiction: An Analysis of “Iguana Girl” 175
18. Part IV: Unchaste Goddesses and Transgressive Women in a Turbulent Nation
19. 11. A Dark Goddess for a Fallen World: Mapping Apocalypse in Some of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s Novels 189
20. 12. Desire and Dharma: A Study of the Representation of Fallen Women in the Novels of Bankim Chandra 203
21. 13. The Fallen Woman in Bengali Literature: Binodini Dasi and Tagore’s Chokher Bali 221
22. Part V: The Moral Frontiers of Lesbianism in the East
23. 14. Shaking the Throne of God: Muslim Women Writers Who Dared 239
24. 15. Homoeroticism and Reaccessing the Idea of “Fallen Woman” in Keval Sood’s Murgikhana 258
25. Afterword 273
26. Contributors 277
27. Index 281