Western Representations of the Muslim Woman: From Termagant to Odalisque by Mohja Kahf

Western Representations of the Muslim Woman: From Termagant to Odalisque

Mohja Kahf

219 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 Musl...

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