Beyond the veil a study in spatiality and historicity in selected Arab women narratives

Abstract

The thesis traces the rising feminist movement in the Arab world while also, bursting certain myths about Arab women s lives. It provides an insight into the personal, private as well as intellectual lives of Arab women and focuses on the issues indigenous to them. The thesis attempts to understand the issues of physical and sexual violations of women s bodies, lack of spatial dimension in personal and private lives and claiming authority over their lives through the art of narratives, respectively. The critical ideas have been drawn from Arab feminism, Spatial studies, power and resistance and from religious holy texts. newline