Western representations of the Muslim woman : from termagant to odalisque / Mohja Kahf.

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 fo...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ACLS)
Main Author:	Kahf, Mohja, 1967-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press, 1999.
Edition:	1st ed.
Series:	ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Subjects:	Muslim women. Women in literature.