Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgment
- Introduction
- 1 Mapping the field of colonial discourse
- 2 Veiled fantasies: cultural and sexual difference in the discourse of Orientalism
- 3 Supplementing the Orientalist lack: European ladies in the harem
- 4 Sartorial fabric-actions: The Enlightenment and Western feminism
- 5 The battle of the veil: woman between Orientalism and nationalism
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgment
- Introduction
- 1 Mapping the field of colonial discourse
- 2 Veiled fantasies: cultural and sexual difference in the discourse of Orientalism
- 3 Supplementing the Orientalist lack: European ladies in the harem
- 4 Sartorial fabric-actions: The Enlightenment and Western feminism
- 5 The battle of the veil: woman between Orientalism and nationalism
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Colonial FantasiesTowards a Feminist Reading of Orientalism, pp. 176 - 182Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998