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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Authors: Kelly, Marjorie (Author) ; Al-Ajmi, Sara Essa (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2021
In: Hawwa
Year: 2021, Volume: 19, Issue: 1, Pages: 51-75
RelBib Classification:KBL Near East and North Africa
ZB Sociology
Further subjects:B visual censorship
B Photography
B Shaykha Mūza
B female photographers
B selfies
B Gulf women
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