Motherhood has been the topic of Western feminist discussion since Simone de Beauvoir’s critique in her influential work The Second Sex, but only recently has it permeated the historiographic discussion around the harem in the Middle East and North Africa. This paper discusses normative feminine identity within the harem and the relationship between motherhood, reproduction, and the state. In this paper I will explore various case studies addressed by salient Middle Eastern and North African scholars in order to discuss the centrality of motherhood to harem women's identity and the construction of normative femininity. How do law and state politics create a normative feminine identity? What role does motherhood play in and provide to t...
In the late xix century and the beginning of the XX century, Arab nationalism identified women as th...
In the late xix century and the beginning of the XX century, Arab nationalism identified women as th...
In the late xix century and the beginning of the XX century, Arab nationalism identified women as th...
The urgency of exploring the history of the harem is important, not only because of being a rare phe...
This paper uses Muslim women’s activism against Morocco’s Personal Status code as a case study to ch...
This paper uses Muslim women’s activism against Morocco’s Personal Status code as a case study to ch...
This article examines the polysemy of the word harem in several of Fatima Mernissi’s texts. Moreover...
Silence, purity and sacrifice have been internalized as values of honorific motherhood for ages all ...
Since the early 1980s feminists have been making concerted efforts to theorise ‘feminine’ and its pr...
Abstract. Analyses of gender and space have been brought short by our awareness of the sterility of ...
Purpose:This chapter shows how professional women from diverse geographic locations claim belonging ...
This thesis aims to analyze and place Fatima Mernissi’s Dreams of Trespass, Tales of a Harem Girlhoo...
The unprecented political power of the Ottoman imperial harem in the sixteenth and seventeenth centu...
At a time when the situation of women in the Islamic world is of global interest, here is a study th...
Item does not contain fulltextPurpose:This chapter shows how professional women from diverse geograp...
In the late xix century and the beginning of the XX century, Arab nationalism identified women as th...
In the late xix century and the beginning of the XX century, Arab nationalism identified women as th...
In the late xix century and the beginning of the XX century, Arab nationalism identified women as th...
The urgency of exploring the history of the harem is important, not only because of being a rare phe...
This paper uses Muslim women’s activism against Morocco’s Personal Status code as a case study to ch...
This paper uses Muslim women’s activism against Morocco’s Personal Status code as a case study to ch...
This article examines the polysemy of the word harem in several of Fatima Mernissi’s texts. Moreover...
Silence, purity and sacrifice have been internalized as values of honorific motherhood for ages all ...
Since the early 1980s feminists have been making concerted efforts to theorise ‘feminine’ and its pr...
Abstract. Analyses of gender and space have been brought short by our awareness of the sterility of ...
Purpose:This chapter shows how professional women from diverse geographic locations claim belonging ...
This thesis aims to analyze and place Fatima Mernissi’s Dreams of Trespass, Tales of a Harem Girlhoo...
The unprecented political power of the Ottoman imperial harem in the sixteenth and seventeenth centu...
At a time when the situation of women in the Islamic world is of global interest, here is a study th...
Item does not contain fulltextPurpose:This chapter shows how professional women from diverse geograp...
In the late xix century and the beginning of the XX century, Arab nationalism identified women as th...
In the late xix century and the beginning of the XX century, Arab nationalism identified women as th...
In the late xix century and the beginning of the XX century, Arab nationalism identified women as th...