Rethinking Orientalism: Women, Travel, and the Ottoman Harem by Reina Lewis

Rethinking Orientalism: Women, Travel, and the Ottoman Harem

Reina Lewis

324 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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During the nineteenth century, the figure of the passive, oppressed, yet highly sexualized female of the Muslim harem became the pivotal figure of Western orientalism. Despite recent challenges to orientalist thinking, however, an enduring mystiqu...

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