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"--