Women, Patronage, and Self-Representation in Islamic Societies

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Women, Patronage, and Self-Representation in Islamic Societies is written by D. Fairchild Ruggles and published by State University of New York Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0791493075 (ISBN 10) and 9780791493076 (ISBN 13).

The first to combine the study of representation, gender theory, and Muslim women from a historical and geographical perspective, this book examines where women have represented themselves in art, architecture, and the written word in the Muslim world. The authors explore the gendering and implicit power relations present in the positioning of subject and object in the visual field and look specifically at occasions when women publicly adopted the stance of the viewer, speaker, writer, or patron. Contributors include Ellison Banks Findly, Elizabeth Brown Frierson, Salah M. Hassan, Nancy Micklewright, Leslie Peirce, Kishwar Rizvi, D. Fairchild Ruggles, Yasser Tabbaa, Lucienne Thys-Senoçak, and Ethel Sara Wolper.