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- catalog abstract "In this original new study Billie Melman recovers the unwritten history of the European experience of the Middle East during the colonial era. She focuses on the evolution of Orientalism and the reconstruction--through contact with other cultures--of gender and class. Beginning with the eighteenth century Billie Melman describes the many ways in which women looked at oriental people and places and developed a discourse which presented a challenge to hegemonic notions on the exotic and "different." Their contact with, and observation of, Middle Eastern people, especially women, created a reassessment of Western domestic and sexual politics and even a solidarity of gender, which cut across race and religion. Billie Melman examines the writings of famous feminist writers, travellers, ethnographers, missionaries, archaeologists, and Biblical scholars, many of whose writings are studied here for the first time. Women's Orients, by introducing gender and class into the ongoing debate on relations between colonial politics and culture, challenges traditional interpretations of Orientalism and other forms of cross-cultural representation.".
- catalog contributor b3255900.
- catalog coverage "Middle East Study and teaching History.".
- catalog created "1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
- catalog description "In this original new study Billie Melman recovers the unwritten history of the European experience of the Middle East during the colonial era. She focuses on the evolution of Orientalism and the reconstruction--through contact with other cultures--of gender and class. Beginning with the eighteenth century Billie Melman describes the many ways in which women looked at oriental people and places and developed a discourse which presented a challenge to hegemonic notions on the exotic and "different." Their contact with, and observation of, Middle Eastern people, especially women, created a reassessment of Western domestic and sexual politics and even a solidarity of gender, which cut across race and religion. Billie Melman examines the writings of famous feminist writers, travellers, ethnographers, missionaries, archaeologists, and Biblical scholars, many of whose writings are studied here for the first time. Women's Orients, by introducing gender and class into the ongoing debate on relations between colonial politics and culture, challenges traditional interpretations of Orientalism and other forms of cross-cultural representation.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 376-397) and index.".
- catalog extent "xix, 417 p., [8] p. of plates :".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London : Macmillan,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog spatial "Middle East Study and teaching History.".
- catalog spatial "Middle East".
- catalog subject "CB251".
- catalog subject "East and West.".
- catalog subject "Ethnology Middle East History.".
- catalog subject "Women Great Britain Attitudes.".
- catalog subject "Women Middle East specialists Great Britain Biography.".
- catalog title "Women's Orients : English women and the Middle East, 1718-1918 : sexuality, religion and work / Billie Melman.".
- catalog type "text".