Iran and the Arab World Through A Female Lens: Deconstructing Western Phantasms and Terrors

Description

This thesis explores how today’s Sheherazades, in this case women photographers from the Middle East, create alternative representations that constitute new meanings and understandings of life, gender, and politics in Iran and the Arab world.

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1. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/428
2. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1426&context=scripps_theses

Tags

Middle East

Women Photographers

Neshat

Ghadirian

Dashti

Rawiya

Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Film and Media Studies

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:CLAREMONT/oai:scholarship.claremont.edu:scripps_theses-1426
Date	01 January 2014
Creators	Amanat, Shayda
Publisher	Scholarship @ Claremont
Source Sets	Claremont Colleges
Detected Language	English
Type	text
Format	application/pdf
Source	Scripps Senior Theses
Rights	© 2014 Shayda Amanat