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Colonial Fantasies - Towards a Feminist Reading of Orientalism

English · Hardback

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This 1998 book is a feminist and post-colonial examination of Western fascination with the veiled women of the Orient.

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Introduction; 1. Mapping the field of colonial discourse; 2. Veiled fantasies: cultural and sexual difference in the discourse of orientalism; 3. Supplementing the Orientalist lack: European ladies in the harem; 4. Sartorial fabric-action: enlightenment and Western feminism; 5. The battle of the veil: women between Orientalism and nationalism.

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Colonial Fantasies, first published in 1998, examines the Western fascination with the veiled women of the Orient. It challenges dualistic conceptions of identity and difference, West and East, and questions the traditional masculinist assumptions of Orientalism and feminist discourses which seek to 'liberate' the veiled woman.

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