Writing the difference: Feminists’ invention of the “Arab woman”

Interventions: Feminist Dialogues on Third World Women's Literature and Film

Volumn , Issue , 2019, Pages 185-211

  Amireh, Amal ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315050249-10     Document Type: Chapter

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