Description |
xii, 213 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Series |
After the empire |
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After the empire.
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Contents |
1. A semiotic reading of Islamic feminism : hybridity, authority, and the strategic reinvention of the "Muslim woman" in Fatima Mernissi -- 2. Isabelle Eberhardt, ou "La Roumia Convertie" : a case study in female Orientalism -- 3. The "Muslim woman" and the iconography of the veil in French feminism and psychoanalysis -- 4. Body, home, and nation : the production of the Tunisian "Muslim woman" in the reformist thought of Tahar al Haddad and Habib Bourguiba -- 5. The house of the prophet as a technology of power : reinventing domesticity and the sacred in the texts of Al Ma'arri, Al Naluti, Djebar, and Rushdie |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Muslim women.
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Women in Islam.
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Women's studies.
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LC no. |
2004019998 |
ISBN |
0739109626 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0739110780 (paperback) |
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