Shirin Neshat: Written on the body

Throughout her long career, since she burst onto the international art scene with his series of Women of Allah, Shirin Neshat's work has been discussed about the status of Muslim women, swinging between the search for cultural identity and the distortions and prejudices that must confront the West. This book addresses aspects about Shirin Neshat's work in relation to the body, showing the tensions between the experience of women and the cultural meanings that are inscribed on the female body.
Indeed, for Neshat and for many feminist writers, the female body is a symbol, " and a" battlefield "where different rhetorical and political ideologies are discussed.