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María Félix (1914-2002) left her mark on Mexican and European film as well as fashion, art, and jewellery design. María Félix (1914-2002) left her mark on Mexican and European film as well as fashion, art and jewellery design. Cartier created one-of-a-kind pieces; Leonora Carrington and Diego Rivera painted portraits; Carlos Fuentes wrote a play; Agustín Lara, a bestselling song. But she was nobody's muse. Did Félix really bring baby crocodiles to the Cartier boutique to request lifelike copies in a necklace? The story may be apocryphal, but it perfectly encapsulates her powerful, independent and unconventional persona. This book first examines Félix's life and work, reviewing her films and acting style and considering what they say about gender norms and a woman's place on screen. It then turns to her role as curator and benefactor, exploring how art, literature and song sustained her image. It concludes by exploring the persistent interest in her life story and evaluating her significance for contemporary audiences.

Motion picture actors and actresses --- Félix, María, --- Antoine Tzapoff. --- Bridget Tichenor. --- Cartier. --- Chavez Marion. --- Emilio Fernández. --- Frances Cabrel. --- Golden Age cinema. --- Hermès. --- Ismael Rodríguez. --- Jean Renoir. --- Juan Gabriel. --- Julio Bracho. --- La Doña. --- Leonor Fini. --- Leonora Carrington. --- Luis Buñuel. --- Luis Spota. --- Octavio Paz. --- Pita Amor. --- Renato Leduc. --- Stanislao Lèpri. --- art. --- fashion. --- film studies. --- gender norms. --- jewellery. --- star studies. --- television.

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Parvin E'tesami (1907-1941) is among the few Persian female poets, who has gained nationwide popularity, while her authorship was disbelieved. She is celebrated in a plethora of publications every year in Iran and beyond. E'tesami is the only female poet who has remained part of the daily lives of people in her society for about a century. Her poetry appears in school curricula both before and after the Revolution of 1979. People use her poetry on social media, particularly in critical times. It is also used in public speeches by Ali Khamenei (r. 1989-present) the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic. This book engages with E'tesami in the transformational context of the early twentieth century in Iran to investigate the controversies around her identity as a popular female poet. It demonstrates that the reason for E'tesami's paradoxical popularity was not merely her gender, but the transgression of patriarchal Iranian-Muslim gender norms.

Iʻtiṣāmī, Parvīn, --- Iʿtiṣāmī, Parvīn, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Iran. --- Iran --- Social conditions --- Parvin E'tesami, Classical Persian Poetry, Persian debate poetry (mun.ara), transgression, Iranian-Muslim gender norms, patriarchy, socio-political criticism, mystic-didactic poetry, politics and poetry, mysticism. --- Literary studies: general. --- Social conditions. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / General. --- HISTORY / Middle East / Iran.