Women, Patronage, and Self-Representation in Islamic Societies

Women, Patronage, and Self-Representation in Islamic SocietiesA rare look at female empowerment in the Muslim world. The first to combine the study of representation, gender theory, and Muslim women from a historical and geographical perspective, this book examines where women have represented themselves in art, architecture, and the written word in the Muslim world. The authors explore the gendering and implicit power relations present in the positioning of subject and object in the visual field and look

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Note: this book was first published in May 2013 and has been redesigned for 2015

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