Download or read book Imagining Arab Womanhood written by A. Jarmakani and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-03-31 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating demonstration of how U.S. representations of veils, harems, and belly dancers have operated as nostalgic and exotic symbols to help rationalize dominant U.S. narratives about power and progress.