Stereotypology: Oppressed Arab Women

How Arab women's veils became a Westernized symbol of both female oppression and fantasy.

Video Sources:
Persepolis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ22VyjJ6n8

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YGmTdo3vuY

A Whole New World:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ1Rb9hC4JY

Arabian Nights:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-1_w6w64IU

Thief and the Cobbler:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMORDgnxNs8

1001 Arabian Nights:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzKrMfni29c

The Sheik:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1AQGfBrVlU

Tin Pan Alley:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=790b0ub8J9c

Felix the Cat:
https://archive.org/details/FelixTheCat-FelixLendsAHand1922

Cleopatra:
https://archive.org/details/Cleopatra_1912

Prince of Persia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuB4P9j5ujk

The Spy Who Loved Me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ8mX52rSWE

From Russia With Love:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XerKDTp1EEs

Sources:
5 Women Quashing Preconceptions About Islam on Social Media: http://www.wired.com/2015/12/muslim-women-twitter/?mbid=social_fb
Americans’ Attitudes Toward Muslims and Arabs Are Getting Worse, Poll Finds: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/29/arab-muslim-poll_n_5628919.html
Arabface! http://arabface.us/
Arab Women Defy STEM Stereotypes: http://msmagazine.com/blog/2015/11/05/arab-women-defy-stem-stereotypes/
Are there any positive portrayals of Arabs? http://www.scpr.org/blogs/multiamerican/2014/06/25/16907/tyrant-fx-arab-muslim-portayr/
Dancing Around Orientalism: https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/tdr/summary/v050/50.4dox.html
European Colonialism and the Emergence of Modern Muslim States: http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/book/islam-9780195107999/islam-9780195107999-chapter-13
How Arab Women Are Fighting Negative Stereotypes with Art: http://national.deseretnews.com/article/5597/how-arab-women-are-fighting-negative-stereotypes-with-a...
Imagining Arab Womanhood: https://books.google.com/books?id=6ZLFAAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Muslim Women Beyond the Stereotypes: https://www.ing.org/muslim-women-youth/
Orientalism in Nineteenth-Century Art: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/euor/hd_euor.htm
Reclaiming Identity: Dismantling Arab Stereotypes: http://www.arabstereotypes.org/
The Eloquence of Silence: Algerian Women in Question: https://books.google.com/books?id=0iVpAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Unveiling the Veil: Debunking the Stereotypes of Muslim Women: http://scholarship.rollins.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1062&context=mls
What are some typical misperceptions and stereotypes Westerners hold about Islam and the Middle East? http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/globalconnections/mideast/questions/types/

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