Bodies and Contexts: An Investigation into a Postmodern Feminist Reading of Averroës
In this article, I contribute to the wider discourse of theorizing feminism in predominantly Muslim societies by analyzing the role of women’s political agency within the writings of the twelfth-century Islamic philosopher Averroës (Ibn Rushd, 1126–1198). I critically analyze Catarina Belo’s (2009)...
Main Author: | Reed Taylor |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
2016-06-01
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Series: | Journal of Feminist Scholarship |
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Online Access: | http://www.jfsonline.org/issue10/articles/taylor/ |
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