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.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:uoregon.edu/oai:scholarsbank.uoregon.edu:1794/24534 |
| Date | 30 April 2019 |
| Creators | Alwazzan, Maryam |
| Contributors | Mondloch, Kate |
| Publisher | University of Oregon |
| Source Sets | University of Oregon |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Rights | All Rights Reserved. |
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