Women's Orients--English Women and the Middle East, 1718-1918: Sexuality, Religion, and WorkUniversity of Michigan Press, 1995 - 417 pages A study of two centuries of British women's travel to the Middle East provides new perspectives for understanding the history of colonialism |
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... traditional pattern of pilgrimage was retained , but religious travel was secularised and acquired a thisworldly social significance . In other words the peregrinato developed into a career . It is significant that the outburst of ...
... traditional pattern of pilgrimage was retained , but religious travel was secularised and acquired a thisworldly social significance . In other words the peregrinato developed into a career . It is significant that the outburst of ...
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... traditional topoi , notably that of the gluttonous odalik , are discarded . More significant even , the travellers challenge the bourgeois code and redefine the borders of feminine social behaviour . The case with physical hygiene , as ...
... traditional topoi , notably that of the gluttonous odalik , are discarded . More significant even , the travellers challenge the bourgeois code and redefine the borders of feminine social behaviour . The case with physical hygiene , as ...
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... traditional sources ; the self - depreciating tone – all of these testify to a lack of self - confidence that is foreign to the literature on harems . Thus the self - important , self - admiring Martineau , who never had had Gordon's ...
... traditional sources ; the self - depreciating tone – all of these testify to a lack of self - confidence that is foreign to the literature on harems . Thus the self - important , self - admiring Martineau , who never had had Gordon's ...
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A Note on the Historiography | 4 |
14 | 29 |
Literary Travellers | 48 |
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Women's Orients--English Women and the Middle East, 1718-1918: Sexuality ... Billie Melman Affichage d'extraits - 1992 |
Women's Orients--English Women and the Middle East, 1718-1918: Sexuality ... Billie Melman Affichage d'extraits - 1992 |
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