<b>The Image of Veil in Leila Ahmed’s Women and Gender in Islam</b>
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the veil, hijab, post-colonialism, feminism, Frantz Fanon, Edward SaidAbstract
Abstract
Most of the time suppressed and disempowered throughout man’s history, the gender of woman has undergone a dissipating process where such an overpowering oscillation between two genders occurs. In spite of the fact that this bias creates a generalization, the position of the 'womanhood’ wasn’t always under subjugation. As a matter of fact, this essay intends to throw light upon women’s past, present and future’ by relying on mainly Leila Ahmed’s flagship works into by drawing a map showing how the veil plays a critical role in the representation of women.
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Ahmed, Leila. (1992). Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate.
New Haven: Yale University Press.
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Fanon, Frantz. (1961). The Wretched of the Earth. London: Penguin.
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Grace, Daphne.(2004). The Woman in the Muslin Mask: Veiling and Identity in Postcolonial
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Said, E.W. Orientalism. (1979). London: Random House.
____. (1981). Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the
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