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Reframing Borders: A Study of the Veil, Writing and Representation of The Female Body In The Photo-Based Artwork of Mona Hatoum, Shirin Neshat and Lalla Essaydi

For a long time, most women believed they had to choose between their Muslim

or Arab identity and their belief in social equality of sexes. It was almost impossible to

choose between either betraying their religious beliefs or their desires for social, political

and economic justice, up until an upsurge of a feminist sentiment started to grow among

women who were seeking to reclaim the Islamic paradigm and the Quran for themselves

in the late nineteenth century (Bardan, 2005). During that time, contemporary female

artists from the Arab and Muslim worlds started to create their own tools in their fight

against oppressive patriarchal societies in order to express their feminine powers and

renegotiate their identities. In this thesis, I analyze the feminist tools used in paradigmatic

photo-based artworks by three contemporary female artists from the Arab and Muslim

worlds: Mona Hatoum, Shirin Neshat, and Lalla Essaydi.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:uoregon.edu/oai:scholarsbank.uoregon.edu:1794/24534
Date30 April 2019
CreatorsAlwazzan, Maryam
ContributorsMondloch, Kate
PublisherUniversity of Oregon
Source SetsUniversity of Oregon
Languageen_US
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
RightsAll Rights Reserved.

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