The Production of the Muslim Woman

The Production of the Muslim Woman
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Publisher : Lexington Books
Total Pages : 232
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ISBN-10 : 0739110780
ISBN-13 : 9780739110782
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Book Synopsis The Production of the Muslim Woman by : Lamia Ben Youssef Zayzafoon

Download or read book The Production of the Muslim Woman written by Lamia Ben Youssef Zayzafoon and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author investigates the configurations of power implicated in the production of the discourses on the 'muslim woman' in the West and North Africa. She argues that as a single category, the 'muslim woman' is an 'invention', whether in the Western discourses of Orientalism (Isabelle Eberhardt) and psychoanalytic feminism (De Beauvoir, Irigaray, Cixous and Lacan), or in the discourses of islamic feminism (Djebar and Mernissi) and Maghrebian nationalism (Habib Bourguiba and Tahar al Haddad).


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