Production of the Muslim Woman - Negotiating Text, History, and Ideology

A Tunisian scholar of English literature, Zayzafoon investigates the configurations of power implicated in the production of the discourses on the Muslim woman in the West and in North Africa. She challenges both the Western narrative of the victim and the Arabocentric narrative about women's elevation by Islam 1,500 years ago, and argues that the

Product details

• Authors: Lamia Ben Youssef Zayzafoon
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.12.2004
• EAN: 9780739110782
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-1078-2
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: After the Empire: The Francophone World & Postcolonial France; After the Empire: The Francophone World & Postcolonial France; After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories