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Debian, Riham

 
9783639660432: Beyond the Purdah of the Mind: Arab Women Tell their Stories
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3639660439 ISBN 13 : 9783639660432
Editeur : Scholars' Press, 2014

Synopsis

Beyond the Purdah of the Mind pursues a feminist reading of four autobiographies by three Arab women writers in an attempt to address the objectification of Arab women's identities in the veil-discourse and the incarceration of their agency in the binary-thinking with its predication of voice on the clothing item of the veil, whose absence or existence is presumed to herald either liberation, emancipation and agency or oppression, suppression and silence. The book’s argument is that contrary to popular thinking and Western stereotypes, Arab women speak through both the empowering silence of the hijab and the relationality of patriarchal connectivity to produce a connective Arab female’ register of the self. The latter vocalize women’s roles in the making of Arab modern identity and history in face of the divisive binarism of the self/other identity-politics and the destruction of masculine orchestrated wars.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Beyond the Purdah of the Mind pursues a feminist reading of four autobiographies by three Arab women writers in an attempt to address the objectification of Arab women's identities in the veil-discourse and the incarceration of their agency in the binary-thinking with its predication of voice on the clothing item of the veil, whose absence or existence is presumed to herald either liberation, emancipation and agency or oppression, suppression and silence. The book’s argument is that contrary to popular thinking and Western stereotypes, Arab women speak through both the empowering silence of the hijab and the relationality of patriarchal connectivity to produce a connective Arab female’ register of the self. The latter vocalize women’s roles in the making of Arab modern identity and history in face of the divisive binarism of the self/other identity-politics and the destruction of masculine orchestrated wars.

Biographie de l'auteur

Riham E. A. Debian is a lecturer at Institute of Linguistics and Translation, Alex University. She has contributed to Women Writing Africa: the Northern Region, New York: Feminist Press, 2005. Her current research interest is the gender politics of religious fundamentalisms.

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Éditeur
Scholars' Press
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3639660439
ISBN 13 
9783639660432
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
260
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Personne responsable
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