An edition of Gendering Orientalism (1995)

Gendering Orientalism

Race, Femininity and Representation (Gender, Racism, Ethnicity Series)

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An edition of Gendering Orientalism (1995)

Gendering Orientalism

Race, Femininity and Representation (Gender, Racism, Ethnicity Series)

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To what extent did white European women contribute to the imperial cultures of the second half of the nineteenth century?

In contrast to most cultural histories of imperialism, which analyse Orientalist images of rather than by women, Gendering Orientalism focuses on how women themselves contributed. Drawing on the little-known work of Henriette Browne, other 'lost' women Orientalist artists and the literary works of George Eliot, the author challenges masculinist assumptions relating to the stability and homogeneity of the Orientalist gaze.

Gendering Orientalism argues that women did not have straight-forward access to an implicitly male position of Western superiority. Their relationship to the shifting terms of race, nation and gender produced positions from which women writers and artists could articulate alternative representations of racial difference.

In order to draw out how the meanings attributed to their words and images, as well as to the writers and artists themselves, were specifically gendered, classed and racialized, the author examines women's visual and literary Orientalism through their contemporary reception in the press.

By revealing the extent of women's involvement in the popular field of visual Orientalism and highlighting the presence of Orientalist themes and structures in the work of Browne, Eliot and Charlotte Bronte, Gendering Orientalism argues for a more complex understanding of women's role in imperial culture and discourse. The book should appeal to all students and lecturers in cultural studies, literature, art history, women's studies and visual anthropology.

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Routledge
Language
English
Pages
267

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First Sentence

"This is a book about a problem: a problem that crosses centuries, yet is historically specific; a problem that crosses continents, yet tells us more about one than the others; a problem that is embedded in the seemingly distant 'high' culture of the nineteenth century, yet whose dynamics are active in everyday life in the late twentieth century."

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Library of Congress
NX650.E85 L48 1996, NX650.E85L48 1996, NX650.E85 L48 1996eb

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7483448M
Internet Archive
genderingorienta0000lewi
ISBN 10
0415124905
ISBN 13
9780415124904
LCCN
95016143
OCLC/WorldCat
852159217, 32466702
Library Thing
829617
Goodreads
635078

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This is a book about a problem: a problem that crosses centuries, yet is historically specific; a problem that crosses continents, yet tells us more about one than the others; a problem that is embedded in the seemingly distant 'high' culture of the nineteenth century, yet whose dynamics are active in everyday life in the late twentieth century.
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