... the colonial period, this work focuses on the problematic legacy of a feminist discourse structured around the notion and rhetoric of visibility, a paradoxical demand to make veiled women simultaneously less and more publicly visible. Following Kate Marsh’s analysis of the centrality of colonial history...

... in August 1945 as head of production after its independent success as the producers of the 1945 smash hit The Seventh Veil. It discusses how Gainsborough became associated with productions in two distinct film genres: starry-eyed soap opera romances and topical films that exploited recent...

...Through the context of the rise of fears of Islamism after several high-profile terrorist attacks in France, this chapter considers the impact of discourses of violence against women in the North African community. After a brief history of the ‘veil affairs’ in France (1989-2003), the chapter...

... them to challenge an all-too-common tenet of liberal humanist feminism that insists upon the oppression of women in the Middle East. Virginia Woolf Three Guineas Middle East Feminism Arab women Liberal humanism Veil Education I entitle this essay “Teaching Woolf in the Middle East” not because...

..., through a Lacanian intervention apropos the standard Freudian theory of ‘the return of the repressed.’ Vampire Cinema Psychoanalytic Film Theory Iranian Shi’ism the Veil Female Sexuality Feminist Theory Return of the Repressed Freud Lacan Michel Chion Žižek What is refused in the symbolic order...