Category Archives: Ahmed, Leila
Women’s Literary Studies, Part 2 of 3
Leila Ahmed, Deborah Kaplan, Patricia Meyer Spacks, and Joan Hinde Stewart discuss feminism in the realm of cultural and literary criticism. In the mid-1980s, what were some of the implications of feminism for the production and study of literature, in both … Continue reading
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Tagged Feminism, George Eliot, Jane Austen, Literary Criticism, Louisa May Alcott, Middle East -- Feminism, Virginia Woolf
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Women, Nature, and Society: Response to “Back to Nature”
This recording opens by replaying Werner Dannhauser’s commentary on Soundings on (“Back to Nature,” February 20, 1983, Episode #125), in which he stated his views on the women’s movement, feminism, and social values. A response to Dannhauser follows [4:40] from Leila … Continue reading
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Tagged Feminism, Gender equality, Women's Movement
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Feminism, East and West
Leila Ahmed and Herbert Bodman discuss Western notions about women in the Middle East and the Islamic world in the 1980s. Where do these ideas originate and are the perceptions accurate? What is the status of feminism in the Middle … Continue reading
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Tagged Feminism, Middle East
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