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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... Bedouins in negative terms.47 The great Burton , acquiring most of his information from literary authorities or in the towns of Hijaz , had no intimate knowledge on Bedouin life and society . And Doughty , who had visited Ha'il only a ...
... Bedouins in negative terms.47 The great Burton , acquiring most of his information from literary authorities or in the towns of Hijaz , had no intimate knowledge on Bedouin life and society . And Doughty , who had visited Ha'il only a ...
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... Bedouin . Faris , young Sheik of the northern Shammar of the upper Euphrates Valley , is another example.49 As Albert Hourani notes , the aristocratic Blunts could identify with the codes of a nomad , or pastoral , pre - modern society ...
... Bedouin . Faris , young Sheik of the northern Shammar of the upper Euphrates Valley , is another example.49 As Albert Hourani notes , the aristocratic Blunts could identify with the codes of a nomad , or pastoral , pre - modern society ...
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... Bedouin society was polygamous . And Bedouin women , Lady Anne observes , were segregated ( most travellers assumed that females in nomad societies were free ) . But they had property rights , actual power and status . Sexual ...
... Bedouin society was polygamous . And Bedouin women , Lady Anne observes , were segregated ( most travellers assumed that females in nomad societies were free ) . But they had property rights , actual power and status . Sexual ...
Table des matières
A Prosopography of Travel 17631914 | 25 |
AUTONOMY | 57 |
Lady | 77 |
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