Women, Patronage, and Self-Representation in Islamic Societies

By D. Fairchild Ruggles

A rare look at female empowerment in the Muslim world.

The first to combine the study of representation, gender theory, and Muslim women from a historical and geographical perspective, this book examines where women have represented themselves in art, architecture, and the written word in the Muslim world. The authors explore the gendering and implicit power relations present in the positioning of subject and object in the visual field and look specifically at occasions when women publicly adopted the stance of the viewer, speaker, writer, or patron.

Contributors include Ellison Banks Findly, Elizabeth Brown Frierson, Salah M. Hassan, Nancy Micklewright, Leslie Peirce, Kishwar Rizvi, D. Fairchild Ruggles, Yasser Tabbaa, Lucienne Thys-Seno ak, and Ethel Sara Wolper.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791444708
• ISBN13: 9780791444702
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher