Loot.co.za: Shop online in South Africa for Books, DVDs, CDs, games, electronics, computers, office, stationery, toys, and much more

Welcome to Loot.co.za! Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search

Checkout
- Your Cart Price

Your cart

Your cart is empty

Showing 1 - 4 of 4 matches in All Departments

Constructions of Masculinity in the Middle East and North Africa - Literature, Film, and National Discourse (Hardcover)

Mohja Kahf, Nadine Sinno

R1,314 Discovery Miles 13 140

Add to cart

Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A Kaleidoscope of Stories - Muslim Voices in Contemporary Poetry (Paperback)

R S Spiker; Yasmine Ahmed-Lea, Hanan Issa, Shahbano Aliani, Yahia Lababidi, …

R791 Discovery Miles 7 910

Add to cart

Ships in 10 - 15 working days

My Lover Feeds Me Grapefruit (Paperback)

Mohja Kahf

R387 Discovery Miles 3 870

Add to cart

Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Western Representations of the Muslim Woman - From Termagant to Odalisque (Paperback, New)

Mohja Kahf

~~R619~~ R563 Discovery Miles 5 630 Save R56 (9%)

Add to cart

Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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 forceful queens of wanton and intimidating sexuality.

In this illuminating study, Mohja Kahf traces the process through which the "termagant" became an "odalisque" in Western representations of Muslim women. Drawing examples from medieval chanson de geste and romance, Renaissance drama, Enlightenment prose, and Romantic poetry, she links the changing images of Muslim women to changes in European relations with the Islamic world, as well as to changing gender dynamics within Western societies.