Veiled Half Truths: Western Travellers  Perceptions of Middle Eastern Women

Veiled Half Truths: Western Travellers Perceptions of Middle Eastern Women


Yazar Judy Mabro
Yayınevi I B Tauris & Co Ltd
ISBN 9781860640278
Baskı yılı 1995
Sayfa sayısı 296
Ağırlık 0.39 kg
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This book examines the way in which Middle Eastern women were regarded by European travellers of the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Much of the writing is concerned with the secrets of the harem. There was much romantic speculation about the lives of
"All we have willed, or hoped, or dreamed"; hidden mysteries; death out for a walk; lifting the veils; the pilgrim was in ecstasy; the voice of sex crying in the wilderness; conversations of profane love; slaves to prejudice; as to the position of women;