Colonial fantasies : towards a feminist reading of Orientalism
Meyda Yegenoglu investigates the intersection between postcolonial and feminist criticism, via the Western fascination with the veiled women of the Orient. Linking representations of cultural and sexual difference, she shows the Oriental woman to have functioned as the veiled interior of Western identity. Her original and compelling argument calls into question dualistic conceptions of identity and difference, West and East, masculinist assumptions of Orientalism, and Western feminist discourses that seek to "liberate" the veiled woman
Print Book, English, 1998
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K., 1998
x, 182 pages ; 24 cm
9780521482332, 9780521626583, 052148233X, 0521626587
37293229
Mapping the field of colonial discourse
Veiled fantasies: cultural and sexual difference in the discourse of Orientalism
Supplementing the Orientalist lack: European ladies in the harem
Sartorial fabric-ations: Enlightenment and Western feminism
The battle of the veil: woman between Orientalism and nationalism