Beyond the Exotic: Women's Histories in Islamic Societies by Amira El-Azhary Sonbol

Beyond the Exotic: Women's Histories in Islamic Societies

Amira El-Azhary Sonbol

560 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction gender history challenging informative slow-paced
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Most research has accepted stereotypical images of Muslim women, treating their outward manifestations, such as veiling, as passive and oppressive. Muslim women have been depicted as different, and by exoticizing (orientalizing)them--or Islamic so...

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