Intelligent Souls? offers a new understanding of Islam in
eighteenth-century Britain. Cahill explores two overlapping
strands of thinking about women and Islam, which produce the
phenomenon of “feminist orientalism.” One strand describes
seventeenth-century ideas about the nature of the soul used to
denigrate religio-political opponents. A second tracks the
transference of these ideas to Islam during the Glorious Revolution
and the Trinitarian controversy of the 1690s. The confluence of
these discourses compounded if not wholly produced the stereotype
that Islam denied women intelligent souls. Surprisingly, women
writers of the period accepted the stereotype, but used it for
their own purposes. Rowe, Carter, Lennox, More, and Wollstonecraft,
Cahill argues, established common ground with men by leveraging the
“otherness” identified with Islam to dispute British
culture’s assumption that British women were lacking in
intelligence, selfhood, or professional abilities. When
Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman she
accepted that view as true—and “feminist orientalism” was
born, introducing a fallacy about Islam to the West that persists
to this day. Â Published by Bucknell University Press.
Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
General
| Imprint: |
Bucknell University Press,U.S.
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850 |
| Release date: |
May 2019 |
| First published: |
2019 |
| Authors: |
Samara Anne Cahill
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| Dimensions: |
235 x 156 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
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| Pages: |
244 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-68448-097-5 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-68448-097-3 |
| Barcode: |
9781684480975 |
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