Western Representations of the Muslim Woman: From Termagant to Odalisque Morris deGroot Publisher: Avery Publishing Group

Publisher: Avery Publishing Group

of adoration and banishment

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Afterwards

Western Representations of the Muslim Woman: From Termagant to Odalisque Morris deGroot Publisher: Avery Publishing GroupVeiled, secluded, submissive, oppressed the "odalisque" image has held sway over Western representations of Muslim women since the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. Yet during medieval and Renaissance times, European writers portrayed Muslim women in exactly the opposite way, as forceful queens of wanton and intimidating sexuality. In this illuminating study, Mohja Kahf traces the process through which the "termagant" became an "odalisque" in