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Conversation and Commentary: FEMEN’s Sextremism as (Imperialist?) Feminism

Do Muslim Women Need Saving? Making (Non)sense of FEMEN's Ethico-Aesthetics in the Arab World

Salam Al-MahadinDepartment of English Language and Literature, Al-Ahliyya Amman University, Amman, JordanCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 388-392 | Published online: 01 Dec 2015

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