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Author : Malek Alloula
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : France
ISBN : 0719019079
Author : Malek Alloula
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816613830
A collection of picture postcards of Algerian women exploited by the French, this "album" illustrates a powerful analysis of the distorting, denigrating effects of their presence on Algerian Society.
Author : Inderpal Grewal
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1996-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822382003
Moving across academic disciplines, geographical boundaries, and literary genres, Home and Harem examines how travel shaped ideas about culture and nation in nineteenth-century imperialist England and colonial India. Inderpal Grewal’s study of the narratives and discourses of travel reveals the ways in which the colonial encounter created linked yet distinct constructs of nation and gender and explores the impact of this encounter on both English and Indian men and women. Reworking colonial discourse studies to include both sides of the colonial divide, this work is also the first to discuss Indian women traveling West as well as English women touring the East. In her look at England, Grewal draws on nineteenth-century aesthetics, landscape art, and debates about women’s suffrage and working-class education to show how all social classes, not only the privileged, were educated and influenced by imperialist travel narratives. By examining diverse forms of Indian travel to the West and its colonies and focusing on forms of modernity offered by colonial notions of travel, she explores how Indian men and women adopted and appropriated aspects of European travel discourse, particularly the set of oppositions between self and other, East and West, home and abroad. Rather than being simply comparative, Home and Harem is a transnational cultural study of the interaction of ideas between two cultures. Addressing theoretical and methodological developments across a wide range of fields, this highly interdisciplinary work will interest scholars in the fields of postcolonial and cultural studies, feminist studies, English literature, South Asian studies, and comparative literature.
Author : Huda Shaarawi
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781558619111
A firsthand account of the private world of a harem in colonial Cairo—by a groundbreaking Egyptian feminist who helped liberate countless women. In this compelling memoir, Shaarawi recalls her childhood and early adult life in the seclusion of an upper-class Egyptian household, including her marriage at age thirteen. Her subsequent separation from her husband gave her time for an extended formal education, as well as an unexpected taste of independence. Shaarawi’s feminist activism grew, along with her involvement in Egypt’s nationalist struggle, culminating in 1923 when she publicly removed her veil in a Cairo railroad station, a daring act of defiance. In this fascinating account of a true original feminist, readers are offered a glimpse into a world rarely seen by westerners, and insight into a woman who would not be kept as property or a second-class citizen.
Author : Jill Beaulieu,Mary Roberts
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002-12-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 0822328747
DIVA collection of essays that develop ways of doing postcolonial studies in art history./div
Author : Assia Djebar
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015029248294
Assia Djebar is also the author of several novels and a play. Her novel Fantasia, an Algerian Cavalcade won the Franco-Arab Friendship Prize and she has written and directed two feature-length films: La nouba des femmes du Mont Chenoua, which won first prize at the Venice Festival, and La zerda et les chants de l'oubli. Djebar is director of the Center for French and Francophone Studies at Louisiana State University. Marjolijn de Jager has published numerous translations of literary works. Clarisse Zimra is Associate Professor of English in Modern Literary Theory and Criticism and Comparative Literature at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
Author : Laila Amine
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780299315801
Expanding the narrow script of what it means to be Parisian, Laila Amine explores the novels, films, and street art made by Maghrebis, Franco-Arabs, and African Americans, including fiction by Charef, Chraïbi, Sebbar, Baldwin, Smith, and Wright, and such films as La haine, Made in France, Chouchou, and A Son.
Author : Susan Migden Socolow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521196659
A highly readable survey of women's experiences in Latin America from the late fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries.
Author : Marilyn Booth
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780822348696
An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the harem as it was imagined, represented, and experienced in Middle Eastern and North African societies, and by visitors to those societies.
Author : Meyda Yegenoglu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1998-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521626587
In this 1998 book, Meyda Yegenoglu investigates the intersection between post-colonial and feminist criticism, focusing on the Western fascination with the veiled women of the Orient. She examines the veil as a site of fantasy and of nationalist ideologies and discourses of gender identity, analyzing travel literature, anthropological and literary texts to reveal the hegemonic, colonial identity of the desire to penetrate the veiled surface of 'otherness'. Representations of cultural difference and sexual difference are shown to be inextricably linked, and the figure of the Oriental woman to have functioned as the veiled interior of Western identity.
Author : Mary Roberts
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 0822339676
DIVComparative study of 19th-century representations of Ottoman harems that considers both the tradition of British paintings and writings about harems as well as the perspectives of Ottoman women who commissioned their own harem portraits./div
Author : Leslie P. Peirce
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0195086775
The unprecedented political power of the Ottoman imperial harem in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is widely viewed as illegitimate and corrupting. This book examines the sources of royal women's power and assesses the reactions of contemporaries, which ranged from loyal devotion to armed opposition. By examining political action in the context of household networks, Leslie Peirce demonstrates that female power was a logical, indeed an intended, consequence of political structures. Royal women were custodians of sovereign power, training their sons in its use and exercising it directly as regents when necessary. Furthermore, they played central roles in the public culture of sovereignty--royal ceremonial, monumental building, and patronage of artistic production. The Imperial Harem argues that the exercise of political power was tied to definitions of sexuality. Within the dynasty, the hierarchy of female power, like the hierarchy of male power, reflected the broader society's control for social control of the sexually active.
Author : Paul S. Landau,Deborah D. Kaspin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0520229495
This volume considers the meaning and power of images in African history and culture. It assembles a wide-ranging collection of essays dealing with specific visual forms, including monuments cinema, cartoons, domestic and professional photography, body art, world fairs, and museum exhibits.
Author : Reina Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136164750
In contrast to most cultural histories of imperialism, which analyse Orientalist images of rather than by women, Gendering Orientalism focuses on the contributions of women themselves. Drawing on the little-known work of Henriette Browne, other `lost' women Orientlist artists and the literary works of George Eliot, Reina Lewis challenges masculinist assumptions relating to the stability and homogeneity of the Orientalist gaze. Gendering Orientalism argues that women did not have a straightforward access to an implicitly nale position of western superiority, Their relationship to the shifting terms of race, nation and gender produced positions from which women writers and artists could articulate alternative representations of racial difference. It is this different, and often less degrading, gaze on the Orientalized `Other' that is analysed in this book. By revealing the extent of women's involvement in the popular field of visual Orientalism and highlighting the presence of Orientalist themes in the work of Browne, Eliot and Charlotte Bronte, reina Lewis uncovers women's roles in imperial culture and discourse. Gendering Orientalism will appeal to students, lecturers and researchers in cultural studies, literature, art history, women's studies and anthropology.
Author : Marnia Lazreg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351867023
The Eloquence of Silence, first published in 1994, is considered a seminal text in the scholarship of women and North Africa. Marnia Lazreg makes a critical departure from more traditional studies of Algerian women, which usually examine female roles in relation to Islam – and instead takes an interdisciplinary approach, arguing that Algerian women's roles are shaped by a variety of structural and symbolic factors. These include colonial domination, demographic change, nationalism, family formation, the turn to culturalism, and the progressive shift to a capitalist economy. Grounded in archival research supplemented by interviews, and adopting a historico-critical method, the book identifies and examines the significance of an enduring feature of women’s journey: their instrumental use as tropes in struggles between groups of men opposed to one another during political crises. It demonstrates that despite being central to contentious political issues, women’s needs and aspirations were obscured just as their voices have traditionally been silenced. This new edition is thoroughly updated throughout to connect the original material to major political disruptions in the twenty-first century, such as the 9/11 attacks on New York and events around the "Arab Spring." The book foregrounds women’s determination to forge ahead, as well as their activism, which led to progress in fighting rape and other forms of violence made banal in the wake of the civil war (1992–2002). It also calls for a "decolonization" of concepts and theoretical systems used in accounting for women’s lived reality, and a questioning of facile postfeminist discourses in their manifold expressions.