Voicing The Voiceless: Feminism And Contemporary Arab Muslim Women

Name: Voicing The Voiceless: Feminism And Contemporary Arab Muslim Women
Brand: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
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By Taghreed Abu Sarhan

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Arab Muslim women have been portrayed by the West in general and Western Feminism in particular as oppressed, weak, submissive, and passive. A few critics, Nawar al-Hassan Golley, is an example, clarify that Arab Muslim women are not weak and passive as they are seen by the Western Feminism viewed through the lens of their own culture and historical background. Using Transnational Feminist theory, my study examines four autobiographies: Harem Years By Huda Sha'arawi, A Mountainous Journey a Poet's Autobiography by Fadwa Tuqan, A Daughter of Isis by Nawal El Saadawi, and Dreams of Trespass, Tales of a Harem Girlhood by Fatima Mernissi. This study promises to add to the extant literature that examine Arab Muslim women's status by viewing Arab women's autobiographies as real life stories to introduce examples of Arab Muslim women who have significant changes for themselves and their societies. Moreover, this study seeks to demonstrate that Arab Muslim women are educated, have feminist consciousnesses, with their own clear reading of their own religion and culture,more telling than that of the reading of outsiders.

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Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 236
Release Date:: 2012-05-16
Publication Date:: 2012-05-05
Publisher:: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 3659117951
ISBN13:: 9783659117954
Weight:: 369 g
Height:: 150 cm
Width:: 220 cm
Thickness:: 15 cm

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