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Western Representations of the Muslim Woman by Mohja Kahf (1999, Paperback) 
Western Representations of the Muslim Woman by Mohja Kahf (1999, Paperback)

 
Western Representations of the Muslim Woman by Mohja Kahf (1999, Paperback)

Author: Mohja Kahf
Publisher: Univ of Texas Pr
Publication Date: 1999-05-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0292743378
ISBN-13: 9780292743373
Product ID: EPID630557
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Publication Date:1999-05-01

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Length:207 pages
Height:9.0 in
Width:6.3 in
Thickness:0.5 in
Weight:11.2 oz

Publisher's Note
Veiled, secluded, submissive, oppressed--the "odalisque" image has held sway over Western representations of Muslim women since the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. Yet during medieval and Renaissance times, European writers portrayed Muslim women in exactly the opposite way, as forceful queens of wanton and intimidating sexuality. In this illuminating study, Mohja Kahf traces the process through which the "termagant" became an "odalisque" in Western representations of Muslim women. Drawing examples from medieval chanson de geste and romance, Renaissance drama, Enlightenment prose, and Romantic poetry, she links the changing images of Muslim women to changes in European relations with the Islamic world, as well as to changing gender dynamics within Western societies.

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