Contemporary Feminist Art by Women in North Africa

Ramona Mielusel is associate professor of French and francophone studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

• Chapter 1Ornate Bodies: Symbolic Markers of the Arab Female Body in Majida Khattari’s PhotographyChapter 2The Elusiveness of Arab Women and their Subversive Presence in the Architectural Photographic Space of Lalla EssaydiChapter 3Women’s Body, Empowerment and “Soft Transgression” in Some of Zoulikha Bouabdellah’s artworksChapter 4Transgressive Bodies: Exploring the Outlier Identities and Bodies in Déborah Benzaquen’s PhotographyChapter 5Liberating the Body in Fatima Mazmouz’s photographic work: from the Personal to the PoliticalChapter 6Decriminalizing the Body: Art and Nudity against the Hshouma by Zaïnab Fasiki

Contemporary Feminist Art by Women in North Africa is a valuable inquiry into the vital forces at the heart of some of the most bold and compelling works in the Maghreb today. Mielusel’s focus on the body, and on its multiple forms of symbolic representation, forges productive connections between aesthetics and culture, placing women at the center of a vibrant cultural moment.