Date of Award

1-1-2017

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Ph.D.

Organizational Unit

Josef Korbel School of International Studies, International Studies

First Advisor

Bernadette M. Calafell, Ph.D.

Second Advisor

Christina Foust

Third Advisor

Armond Towns

Fourth Advisor

Marouf Hasian

Fifth Advisor

Margaret Thompson

Keywords

Arab, Intersectionality, Muslim, Postcolonial feminism, Whiteness, Women

Abstract

This study examines Muslim women's performances and embodiment of White femininity. It addresses invisibility/visibility and problematic rhetorical constructs for re-securing and replicating White femininity, which in turn reasserts White masculinity as the dominant ideological structure in service of Whiteness. To be exact, the aim is to specifically focus on how Whiteness travels globally through Muslim bodies and subjects who speak the language of the imperialist and not the vernacular. This language of the imperialist is also the language of heteronormativity, class, and educational privilege. These intersections are not stand-alone categories but instead seep into one another in the service of Whiteness. The study performs an archetypal criticism, a method that examines controlling archetypes emerging from the Western Media. Three archetypes for Muslim women are identified in this study: The Oppressed, The Advocate, and the Humanitarian Leader. Through an intersectional feminist ethic the study concludes by offering further directions for understanding and naming moments when marginalized persons embody privileged identities.

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Rights Holder

Haneen Al Ghabra

Provenance

Received from ProQuest

File Format

application/pdf

Language

en

File Size

229 p.

Discipline

Communication

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