HOW THE LEFT ARE ENSURING THAT THE MIDDLE EASTERN WOMAN REMAINS THE ‘OTHER’ BY UTILIZING HER AS SINGULAR MONOLITHIC OBJECT IN THEIR FIGHT AGAINST ISLAMOPHOBIA AND BY SILENCING HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN MUSLIM COUNTRIES.
‘The process of Othering has everything to do with knowledge, and power acting through knowledge to achieve a particular political agenda in its goal of domination’ (Said 1978: xiii). The non-Western woman (and more recently since 9/11, the Muslim woman), has been produced as a singular monolithic subject within academic frameworks, and in Left...
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