Rethinking Orientalism : Women, Travel and the Ottoman Harem

Name: Rethinking Orientalism
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
SKU: 9781860647307
Price: 4900 KES
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ISBN: 9781860647307

by Reina Lewis

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 1860647308

ISBN-13 9781860647307

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint I.B. Tauris

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Sep 24th, 2004

Print length 256 Pages

Weight 480 grams

Dimensions 15.40 x 23.40 x 1.90 cms

Product Classification: Cultural studies History of ideas Gender studies: women and girls Cultural studies History of ideas Gender studies: women

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Questioning the Western stereotype about the women of the Muslim harem, the author argues that, whilst Orientalist thinking has been challenged, the Western understanding of Middle Eastern culture remains limited.

The oppressed yet highly sexualized woman of the Muslim harem is arguably the pivotal figure of Western orientalism. Yet, as Reina Lewis demonstrates, while orientalist thinking had recently been challenged, Western understandings of Middle Eastern culture remain limited. This book presents alternative dialogues between Ottoman and Western women. Lewis examines, from the position of cultural theory, the published autobiographical accounts about segregated life of self-identified "Oriental" women Demetra Vaka Brown, Halide Edib, Zeyneb Hanum, Melek Hanum and Grace Ellison. Bringing her subjects vividly to life, Lewis uses these texts to challenge the Western orientalist stereotypes that have become commonplace within postcolonial theory.

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