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Article: Eroticism, mysticism, and liberation in Tahar Ben Jelloun's La Nuit de l'erreur, or the case for active female sexuality.(Critical essay)
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- Michigan Academician
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- March 22, 2007
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In her very influential work entitled Beyond the Veil, the Moroccan feminist, sociologist, author, and intellectual, Fatima Mernissi, presents the notion that Muslim society is characterized by a double theory of sexual dynamics. There is an "explicit theory" of female sexuality with its belief that men are aggressive in their interaction with women, and women are passive. According to Mernissi, "the machismo theory casts the man as the hunter and the woman as his prey. This vision is widely shared and deeply ingrained in both men's and women's vision of themselves" (33). Mernissi however argues that there exists a contradictory "implicit theory" of female sexuality, as ...
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Article: Alberto Manguel. La Bibliotheque, la nuit.(Book ...
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