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Motherhood and the Construction of Gendered Identity: An Exploration of Middle Eastern and North African Harems

Motherhood has been the topic of Western feminist discussion since Simone de Beauvoir’s critique in her influential work The Second Sex, but only recently has it permeated the historiographic discussion around the harem in the Middle East and North Africa. This paper discusses normative feminine identity within the harem and the relationship between motherhood, reproduction, and the state. In this paper I will explore various case studies addressed by salient Middle Eastern and North African scholars in order to discuss the centrality of motherhood to harem women's identity and the constructio…

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Source	OpenAlex research
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	Constellations
Date	1969-12-31
Type	article
Details	openalex title_and_abstract.search:nigeria,authorships.countries:!NG,primary topic.subfield.id:3320
Found at	https://doi.org/10.29173/cons24726
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Record ID	`openalex:W2199591448`

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Motherhood and the Construction of Gendered Identity: An Exploration of Middle Eastern and North African Harems. OpenAlex research, 1969. Vero Archive, record openalex:W2199591448.