Davis, Nicelle 1979-

The walled wife [electronic resource] / Nicelle Davis. - First edition. - Pasadena, CA : Red Hen Press, [2016] - 1 online resource (pages ; cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

"Nicelle Davis's The Walled Wife unearths from the long-standing text "The Ballad of the Walled-up Wife," a host of issues that continue to plague women in the contemporary world: the woman's body as sacrifice; the woman's body as tender or currency; the woman's body as disposable; the woman's body as property; the woman's body as aesthetic object; the woman's body unsafe in the world she must inhabit, and in the hands of the people she loves"--

9781597095860




POETRY / American / General.


Electronic books.

PS3604.A97268 / A6 2016

811/.6