The Effect of Intersectional Identities on Women's Body: Orientalism and Self-Discovery

• In Event: Identity and Intersectionality in Political Behavior

Brief Overview

My research discusses the role of exoticism associated with the Orientalist construction of Arab female identities raised in the USA to construct distinct identity for women — one that is to a certain extent in conflict with postcolonial politics.

Author

• Shatha Alhawamdeh, Kent State University at Kent