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Gender, Modernity and Liberty: Middle Eastern and Western Women's Writings: A Critical Sourcebook
Reina Lewis
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Description for Gender, Modernity and Liberty: Middle Eastern and Western Women's Writings: A Critical Sourcebook
Paperback. Presents a dialogue between Western and Middle Eastern women. This collection provides substantial extracts from Ottoman, Egyptian and British and American writers - each with a biographical and literary introduction - that trace the development of an intellectual, personal and critical dialogue between women. Num Pages: 296 pages, b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; DNF; GTB; JFSJ1; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 161 x 16. Weight in Grams: 486.
Gender, Modernity and Liberty presents a dialogue between Western and Middle Eastern women that is often presumed never to have happened. Not only were women from the Middle East imagined to be shut up in a harem all day without access to education, ideas or the outside world, but the extent to which Western women travellers were able to engage with women in the regions they visited has often been overlooked. This pioneering collection provides substantial extracts from Ottoman, Egyptian and British and American writers - each with a biographical and literary introduction - that trace the development of ... Read more
Gender, Modernity and Liberty presents a dialogue between Western and Middle Eastern women that is often presumed never to have happened. Not only were women from the Middle East imagined to be shut up in a harem all day without access to education, ideas or the outside world, but the extent to which Western women travellers were able to engage with women in the regions they visited has often been overlooked. This pioneering collection provides substantial extracts from Ottoman, Egyptian and British and American writers - each with a biographical and literary introduction - that trace the development of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
I. B. Tauris
Number of pages
296
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781860649578
SKU
V9781860649578
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About Reina Lewis
Reina Lewis is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of East London. She is author of Rethinking Orientalism: Women, Travel and the Ottoman Harem and Gendering Orientalism: Race, Femininity and Representation. She is editor, with Sara Mills, of Feminist Postcolonial Theory. Nancy Micklewright is a Program Officer at the Getty Foundation in Los Angeles. She previously taught ... Read more
Reviews for Gender, Modernity and Liberty: Middle Eastern and Western Women's Writings: A Critical Sourcebook
'The selections in this volume remind us that conversation as well as confrontation has shaped histories of East-West encounter, even if different parties to dialogue have not had even or equal access to audiences for their writing...a timely reminder that often parallel debates over gender and societal efficacy were taking place simultaneously in Istanbul, Cairo, London and New ... Read more