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Voicing the Voiceless: Feminism and Contemporary Arab Muslim Women's Autobiographies

Abu Sarhan, Taghreed Mahmoud
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1322605173

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2011, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bowling Green State University, American Culture Studies/Ethnic Studies.
Arab Muslim women have been portrayed by the West in general and Western Feminism in particular as oppressed, weak, submissive, and passive. A few critics, Nawar al-Hassan Golley, is an example, clarify that Arab Muslim women are not weak and passive as they are seen by the Western Feminism viewed through the lens of their own culture and historical background. Using Transnational Feminist theory, my study examines four autobiographies: Harem Years By Huda Sha'arawi, A Mountainous Journey a Poet's Autobiography by Fadwa Tuqan, A Daughter of Isis by Nawal El Saadawi, and Dreams of Trespass, Tales of a Harem Girlhood by Fatima Mernissi. This study promises to add to the extant literature that examine Arab Muslim women's status by viewing Arab women's autobiographies as real life stories to introduce examples of Arab Muslim women figures who have effected positive and significant changes for themselves and their societies. Moreover, this study seeks to demonstrate, through the study of select Arab Muslim women's autobiographies, that Arab Muslim women are educated, have feminist consciousnesses, and national figures with their own clear reading of their own religion and culture, more telling than that of the reading of outsiders.
Ellen Berry, PhD (Committee Chair)
Vibha Bhalla, PhD (Other)
Radhika Gajjala, PhD (Committee Member)
Erin Labbie, PhD (Committee Member)
204 p.
Communication; Ethnic Studies; History; Religion
Arab Muslim Women; Transnational Feminist Theory; Contemporary Arab Muslim Women's Autobiography; Third World Women; Western Feminism; Women's Movement in the Arab Muslim World

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  • Abu Sarhan, T. M. (2011). Voicing the Voiceless: Feminism and Contemporary Arab Muslim Women's Autobiographies [Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1322605173

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Abu Sarhan, Taghreed. Voicing the Voiceless: Feminism and Contemporary Arab Muslim Women's Autobiographies. 2011. Bowling Green State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1322605173.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Abu Sarhan, Taghreed. "Voicing the Voiceless: Feminism and Contemporary Arab Muslim Women's Autobiographies." Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1322605173

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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