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Search - Dreaming of East: Western Women and the Exotic Allure of the Orient
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Dreaming of East Western Women and the Exotic Allure of the Orient Author: When Lady Mary Wortley Montagu visited the baths in Turkey in 1717 she was so tightly corseted that Turkish women were convinced her husband had locked her into some devious machine. Montagu?s account of her journey helped bring the region into the Western world?s consciousness, and by the 1800s, the vogue for Orientalia had overtaken a continen... more »
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Genres:
- History >> Middle East >> General
- History >> Historical Study >> Social History
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- Travel >> Reference & Tips >> Essays & Travelogues
- Travel >> Middle East >> General
- Nonfiction >> Social Sciences >> Sociology >> General
- Nonfiction >> Women's Studies >> General