Women's Orients--English Women and the Middle East, 1718-1918: Sexuality, Religion, and WorkUniversity of Michigan Press, 1992 - 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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... Edwards was born in London in 1831 , to a banking family with an East - Anglican gentry background . She displayed extraordinary precocity in writing , having her first poem pub- lished when she was seven and her first story when she ...
... Edwards was born in London in 1831 , to a banking family with an East - Anglican gentry background . She displayed extraordinary precocity in writing , having her first poem pub- lished when she was seven and her first story when she ...
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... Edwards . The fictive one reveals a great deal about a woman experimenting with the genre of ' scientific ' , specialist travel - literature . The narrator / traveller in A Thousand Miles is androgynous . Delib- erately Edwards plays ...
... Edwards . The fictive one reveals a great deal about a woman experimenting with the genre of ' scientific ' , specialist travel - literature . The narrator / traveller in A Thousand Miles is androgynous . Delib- erately Edwards plays ...
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... Edwards comments that : the thoroughfares are dusty , narrow , unpaved and crowded , as at Minieh . The people are one - eyed , dirty and unfragrant , as at Minieh . The children's eyes are full of flies and their heads are covered with ...
... Edwards comments that : the thoroughfares are dusty , narrow , unpaved and crowded , as at Minieh . The people are one - eyed , dirty and unfragrant , as at Minieh . The children's eyes are full of flies and their heads are covered with ...
Table des matières
Womens Travel in | 8 |
A Prosopography of Travel 17631914 | 27 |
Patterns of Travel and Work | 33 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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Women's Orients--English Women and the Middle East, 1718-1918: Sexuality ... Billie Melman Affichage d'extraits - 1995 |
Women's Orients--English Women and the Middle East, 1718-1918: Sexuality ... Billie Melman Affichage d'extraits - 1992 |
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