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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."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog alternative "Women's Orients.".
- catalog contributor b3924333.
- 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."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 376-397) and index.".
- catalog description "TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Orientalism, travel and gender -- A prosopography of travel, 1763-1914 -- The women's harem: autonomy, sexuality and solidarity -- Harem literature, 1763-1914: tradition and innovation -- The eighteenth-century harem (1717-89): Lady Montagu, Lady Craven and the genealogy of comparative 'morals' -- Exorcising Sheherezad: the Victorians and the harem -- The haremlik as a bourgeois home: autonomy, community and solidarity -- Evangelising the orient: women's work and the evolution of evangelical ethnography -- Evangelical travel and the evangelical construction of gender -- The women of Christ church: work, literature and community in nineteenth-century Jerusalem -- 'Domestic life in Palestine': Evangelical ethnography, faith and prejudice -- Feminising the landscape -- A secular geography of the orient: authority, gender and travel -- Harriet Martineau's anti-pilgrimage: autobiography, history and landscape -- Queen Hatasu's beard: Amelia Edwards, the scientific journey and the emergence of the first female ' orientalists' -- An 'orientalist' couple: Anne Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt and the Pilgrimage to Najd.".
- catalog extent "xix, 417 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Women's Orients--English women and the Middle East, 1718-1918.".
- catalog identifier "0472082795 (pbk.)".
- catalog identifier "0472103326 (alk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Women's Orients--English women and the Middle East, 1718-1918.".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,".
- catalog relation "Women's Orients--English women and the Middle East, 1718-1918.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog spatial "Middle East Study and teaching History.".
- catalog spatial "Middle East".
- catalog subject "956/.0072 20".
- catalog subject "DS61.7.A1 M45 1992".
- catalog subject "Ethnology Middle East History.".
- catalog subject "Women Asianists Great Britain Biography.".
- catalog subject "Women Great Britain Attitudes.".
- catalog subject "Women Middle East specialists Great Britain Biography.".
- catalog subject "Women authors, English 18th century Attitudes.".
- catalog subject "Women authors, English 19th century Attitudes.".
- catalog tableOfContents "TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Orientalism, travel and gender -- A prosopography of travel, 1763-1914 -- The women's harem: autonomy, sexuality and solidarity -- Harem literature, 1763-1914: tradition and innovation -- The eighteenth-century harem (1717-89): Lady Montagu, Lady Craven and the genealogy of comparative 'morals' -- Exorcising Sheherezad: the Victorians and the harem -- The haremlik as a bourgeois home: autonomy, community and solidarity -- Evangelising the orient: women's work and the evolution of evangelical ethnography -- Evangelical travel and the evangelical construction of gender -- The women of Christ church: work, literature and community in nineteenth-century Jerusalem -- 'Domestic life in Palestine': Evangelical ethnography, faith and prejudice -- Feminising the landscape -- A secular geography of the orient: authority, gender and travel -- Harriet Martineau's anti-pilgrimage: autobiography, history and landscape -- Queen Hatasu's beard: Amelia Edwards, the scientific journey and the emergence of the first female ' orientalists' -- An 'orientalist' couple: Anne Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt and the Pilgrimage to Najd.".
- catalog title "Women's Orients--English women and the Middle East, 1718-1918 : sexuality, religion, and work / Billie Melman.".
- catalog title "Women's Orients.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".