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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.
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