[PDF.80qe] Imagining Arab Womanhood: The Cultural Mythology of Veils, Harems, and Belly Dancers in the U.S.

Imagining Arab Womanhood: The Cultural Mythology of Veils, Harems, and Belly Dancers in the U.S.

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 | #6568273 in Books |  2015-10-09 |  2015-10-09 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.50 x.57 x5.51l,.65 | File type: PDF | 236 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Inaccessible to the average reader|By Raskolnikov|I was very excited when I first saw this book. It has an interesting premise (to examine US/orientalist images of Arab women in the 20th century) and does what it sets out to do in a well-researched, academic fashion. Jarmakani details such things as cigarette ads and belly dancers at the Chicago World's fair with an eye to dem| ||'This is an outstanding, truly innovative, and very timely project that explores predominant images of Arab women in U.S. popular culture.' - Nadine Naber, Program in American Culture and Department of Women's Studies, University of Michigan, USA|

A fascinating demonstration of how U.S. representations of veils, harems, and belly dancers have operated as nostalgic and exotic symbols to help rationalize dominant U.S. narratives about power and progress.

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