Unveiling Desire, by D. Das and C. Morrow
Unveiling Desire: Fallen Women in Literature, Culture, and Films of the East, edited by Devaleena Das and Colette Morrowis (Rutgers University Press, 2018), is a collection of 15 essays by various authors on the so-called "fallen women", namely promiscuous women.
Using examples from the Middle to Far East, including Iran, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Thailand, Japan, and China, and topics ranging from Bollywood to classical Indian literature, from Hindu to Muslim characters and writers, this anthology shows that only women are punished or condemned for sexual prostitution, while hypersexuality of men is accepted or praised. This pattern is universal, not Eastern or Western, and doesn't belong to a particular ethnic or religious identity. It's a universal double standard.