Open AccessArab Women: From Misconceptions to Reality
Author(s) -
Hassan Hammoud
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
al-raida
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2226-4841
pISSN - 0259-9953
DOI - 10.32380/alrj.v0i0.779
Subject(s) - gender studies , sociology , epistemology , aesthetics , political science , philosophy
For over forty years, most Western and traditional Arab writers dealing with Arab women's concerns, issues, and. problems, adopted a Western discourse that remains for the most part unchallenged. Only recently have two prominent Arab women successfully attempted to dismantle this discourse by deconstructing its basic premises and criticizing its concepts and theories.