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Women's Orients: English Women and the Middle East, 1718-1918
Billie Melman
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Paperback. Num Pages: 436 pages, biography. BIC Classification: D; HBJD; HBJF; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
In this highly acclaimed study, Billie Melman recovers the unwritten history of the European experience of the Middle-East during the colonial era. She focuses on the evolution of Orientalism and the reconstruction - through contact with other cultures - of gender and class. Beginning with the eighteenth century Billie Melman describes the many ways in which women looked at oriental people and places and developed a discourse which presented a challenge to hegemonic notions on the exotic and 'different'. Through her examination of the writings of famous feminist writers, travellers, ethnographers, missionaries, archaeologists and Biblical scholars, many of which ... Read more
In this highly acclaimed study, Billie Melman recovers the unwritten history of the European experience of the Middle-East during the colonial era. She focuses on the evolution of Orientalism and the reconstruction - through contact with other cultures - of gender and class. Beginning with the eighteenth century Billie Melman describes the many ways in which women looked at oriental people and places and developed a discourse which presented a challenge to hegemonic notions on the exotic and 'different'. Through her examination of the writings of famous feminist writers, travellers, ethnographers, missionaries, archaeologists and Biblical scholars, many of which ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
436
Condition
New
Number of Pages
417
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349101597
SKU
V9781349101597
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99-15
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