num_pages: 196
description: 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.
language: English
title: Colonial Fantasies: Towards a Feminist Reading of Orientalism
titlecomplete: Colonial Fantasies: Towards a Feminist Reading of Orientalism (Cambridge Cultural Social Studies)
genres: Feminism, History, Sociology, Race, Research, Post Colonial, Nonfiction, Theory, Academic, Politics
ratings_count: 76
series: Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
publisher: Cambridge University Press