Bodies and Contexts: An Investigation into a Postmodern Feminist Reading of Averroës

In this article, I contribute to the wider discourse of theorizing feminism in predominantly Muslim societies by analyzing the role of women’s political agency within the writings of the twelfth-century Islamic philosopher Averroës (Ibn Rushd, 1126–1198). I critically analyze Catarina Belo’s (2009)...

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Main Author: Reed Taylor
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth 2016-06-01
Series:Journal of Feminist Scholarship
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Online Access:http://www.jfsonline.org/issue10/articles/taylor/