An Alternative Representation of Femininity in 1920s Lebanon: Through the Mise-en-Abîme of a Masculine Space

In the 1920s, during the early French mandate in Lebanon (1920-1943), a period of major social, political and economic changes and a rising women’s movement in Syria and Lebanon, a young woman in her mid-twenties was recording her everyday life with a photographic camera in the village of Zgharta in...

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Main Author: Nachabe, Yasmine (author)
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Published: 2011
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Nachabe, Y. (2011). An Alternative Representation of Femininity in 1920s Lebanon: Through the mise-en-abîme of a masculine space. New Middle Eastern Studies, 1, 1-12.
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