From Invisible to Actualized: Imagery and Identity in Photos of Women in the Gulf
Abstract After reviewing how Middle Eastern women have been photographed historically, the paper explores how contemporary Gulf women represent themselves, both behind and in front of the camera. Initially, women were invisible, then eroticized or exoticized in Orientalist photography, only to appea...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2021
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Hawwa
Year: 2021, Volume: 19, Issue: 1, Pages: 51-75 |
RelBib Classification: | KBL Near East and North Africa ZB Sociology |
Further subjects: | B
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B Photography B Shaykha Mūza B female photographers B selfies B Gulf women |
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