Woman's Body, Woman's Word : : Gender and Discourse in Arabo-Islamic Writing / / Fedwa Malti-Douglas.
Woman's voice and body are closely entwined in the Arabo-Islamic tradition, argues Fedwa Malti-Douglas in this pioneering book. Spanning the ninth through twentieth centuries and covering a wide range of texts-from courtly anectdote to mystical and philosophical treatises, from works of geograp...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019] ©1991 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Translation, Transcription, and Abbreviation
- Introduction
- CHAPTER 1. Narration and Desire: Shahrazâd
- CHAPTER 2. The Anecdotal Woman
- CHAPTER 3. Sacred History as Misogyny
- CHAPTER 4. Flight from the Female Body: Ibn Tufayl's Male Utopia
- CHAPTER 5. Sexual Geography, Asexual Philosophy
- CHAPTER 6. Nawal al-Sa'dâwî and the Escape from the Female Body: From Handicap to Gender
- CHAPTER 7. Nawal al-Sa'dâwî and Empowerment through Medicine
- CHAPTER 8. Subverting the Male Body: 'Abla al-Ruwaynî and the Poetics of Cancer
- CHAPTER 9. Problematic Birth: Fadwâ Tûqân and the Politics of Autobiography
- Works Cited
- Index