{"id":11102,"date":"2022-01-07T14:00:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T19:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/?p=11102"},"modified":"2022-01-12T11:02:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T16:02:50","slug":"elizabethtown-college-director-of-bowers-writers-house-writes-introduction-for-upcoming-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2022\/01\/07\/elizabethtown-college-director-of-bowers-writers-house-writes-introduction-for-upcoming-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown College Director of Bowers Writers House Writes Introduction for Upcoming Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jesse Waters, Director of Elizabethtown College\u2019s Bowers Writers House<\/a>, recently wrote an introduction for an upcoming book, \u201cTaslima Unbound: Writings on Feminism, Secularism, and Human Rights\u201d by author and activist, Taslima Nasrin.<\/p>\n

The book is an anthology of Nasrin\u2019s works, written over the course of a 30-year period. \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Nasrin is an internationally acclaimed writer, physician, and human rights activist. Her writing focuses on the multifaceted issues surrounding female oppression, and also takes a critical look at the construct of religion, in relation to oppression.<\/p>\n

Born in Bangladesh, Nasrin has been exiled from her home since 1994, after the release of her book, \u201cLajja,\u201d a story based on the anti-Hindu riots that took place in Bangladesh, in 1992.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m extremely honored to offer the introduction to somebody who\u2019s really such a noted global figure in a lot of different arenas,\u201d said Waters. \u201cShe\u2019s a brilliant person who\u2019s done a lot for millions of women across the world. The book is a really strong representation of her work and the contributions that she\u2019s made.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Waters and Nasrin first met in 2010 when Nasrin visited Etown as a Woodrow Wilson visiting fellow.<\/p>\n

\u201cHer writing is extremely personal and extremely revealing,\u201d said Waters. \u201cShe offers a lot of the things that she\u2019s been through personally and how she individually sees the world, and so, it\u2019s an incredible book in the sense of being able to see the introspective sense of a major global personality,\u201d said Waters.<\/p>\n

The book will be published by Global Collective and can be pre-ordered here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jesse Waters, Director of Elizabethtown College\u2019s Bowers Writers House, recently wrote an introduction for an upcoming book, \u201cTaslima Unbound: Writings on Feminism, Secularism, and Human Rights\u201d by author and activist, Taslima Nasrin. The book is an anthology of Nasrin\u2019s works, written over the course of a 30-year period. Nasrin is an internationally acclaimed writer, physician, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":11104,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1338,774,775],"tags":[77,197,1350],"class_list":["post-11102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-and-research","category-arts-and-culture","category-campus","tag-bowers-writers-house","tag-elizabethtown-college","tag-etown","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11102"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11115,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11102\/revisions\/11115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}