Gendering Orientalism: Race, Femininity and Representation

ISBN-13: 9780415124904 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 328 str.

Reina Lewis;Lewis Reina

Opis

This study challenges masculinist assumptions relating to the stability and homogeneity of the Orientalist gaze. It argues that women did not have a straightforward access to an implictly 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. The extent of women's involvement in the popular field of visual Orientalism is revealed and the presence of Orientalist themes in the work of Henriette Browne and George Eliot is highlighted.

Recenzje

'Surely the best kind of cultural study. Thoroughly engaged, passionate about its project, - Gendering Orientalism is fueled by the urgent need to rematerialize forms and peculiarities of modern power that have all but disappeared into what we take to be nature.

'An innovatory work, exceptionally useful for teaching ... an invaluable resource.' - Deborah Cherry, University of Manchester

Spis treści

Introduction>; Chapter 1 Chapter 1 Race — femininity — representation; Chapter 2 Chapter 2 Professional opportunities for women in art and literature; Chapter 3 Chapter 3 Gender, genre and nation; Chapter 4 Chapter 4 ‘Only women should go to Turkey’, HenrietteBrowne; Chapter 5 Chapter 5 Aliens at home and Britons abroad; Afterword Gendering Orientalism; Select bibliography; Index;

O autorze

Reina Lewis is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of East London.