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1 online resource (207 pages) : 1 illustration |
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ACLS Humanities E-Book
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| Contents |
The Muslim Woman in Medieval Texts: "Dame, ne parlez tant!" -- The Muslim Woman in Renaissance Texts: "Una mujer a la morisca vestida" -- The Muslim Woman from Enlightenment to Romanticism: "Je la fis entrer dans les appartements secrets." |
| Summary |
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 |
| Analysis |
Literatur ; SWD-ID: 40359645 |
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Muslim women |
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Muslimin <Motiv> ; SWD-ID: 43833548 |
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Women in literature |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-195) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Muslim women.
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Women in literature.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
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Muslim women
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Women in literature
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Frauenbild
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Muslimin
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Islamieten.
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Vrouwen.
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Representatie (algemeen)
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Frau -- Islam.
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Islam -- Frau.
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Muslimin -- Motiv (Literatur) -- Europa -- Geschichte.
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Frauenbild -- Muslimin -- Europa -- Geschichte.
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Westliche Welt
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Europa -- Muslimin -- Motiv (Literatur) -- Geschichte.
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Europa -- Frauenbild -- Muslimin -- Geschichte.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
98041903 |
| ISBN |
0292799640 |
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9780292799646 |
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