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

Rethinking Orientalism: Women, Travel and the Ottoman Harem

Reina Lewis

297 pages first pub 2004 (view editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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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 Easter...

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