| Description |
xiv, 267 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
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Gender, racism, ethnicity |
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Gender, racism, ethnicity.
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| Contents |
Introduction: making connections -- 1. Race - femininity - representation. Said's Orientalism and his critics. Problems with the 'death of the Author'. Writers, readers and critics. Women representing the other: Villette -- 2. Professional opportunities for women in art and literature. The separate spheres: problems of a professional identity. Opportunities for women in art. Opportunities for women in literature. Nation, empire and culture -- 3. Gender, genre and nation: Henriette Browne, the making of a woman Orientalist artist. The reception of Browne's religious works in Britain and France. Making a name: the establishment of Browne's artistic identity in Britain. Orientalism in the visual arts -- 4. 'Only women should go to Turkey's: Henriette Browne and the female Orientalist gaze. Critical responses to Browne's Harem Interiors, 1861. Using experience to challenge stereotypes: women write about the harem. The female gaze |
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From the subjective to the objective: ethnographic discourses of race and nation. The problematic authority of the female Orientalist gaze -- 5. Aliens at home and Britons abroad: George Eliot's Orientalization of Jews in Daniel Deronda. Evolution, organicism, fiction and Jews: contemporary responses to Daniel Deronda. Daniel Deronda and the formation of an Anglo-Jewish identity. George Eliot and Jewish sources. Shifting stereotypes: origins, heredity, identity. Distance and difference: the problems of reading Daniel Deronda -- Afterword: Gendering Orientalism |
| Summary |
"To what extent did white European women contribute to the imperial cultures of the second half of the nineteenth century?" "In contrast to most cultural histories of imperialism, which analyse Orientalist images of rather than by women, Gendering Orientalism focuses on how women themselves contributed. Drawing on the little-known work of Henriette Browne, other 'lost' women Orientalist artists and the literary works of George Eliot, the author challenges masculinist assumptions relating to the stability and homogeneity of the Orientalist gaze." "Gendering Orientalism argues that women did not have straight-forward access to an implicitly 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. In order to draw out how the meanings attributed to their words and images, as well as to the writers and artists themselves, were specifically gendered, classed and racialized, the author examines women's visual and literary Orientalism through their contemporary reception in the press." "By revealing the extent of women's involvement in the popular field of visual Orientalism and highlighting the presence of Orientalist themes and structures in the work of Browne, Eliot and Charlotte Bronte, Gendering Orientalism argues for a more complex understanding of women's role in imperial culture and discourse. The book should appeal to all students and lecturers in cultural studies, literature, art history, women's studies and visual anthropology."--Jacket |
| Analysis |
Orientalism |
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Visual arts By Women |
| Notes |
Reprinted 2003 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [242]-258) and index |
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Browne, Henriette, 1829-1901 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Eliot, George, 1819-1880. Daniel Deronda.
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Arts, Modern -- 19th century -- Europe.
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Exoticism in art -- Europe.
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Feminism and the arts -- Europe.
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Orientalism in art -- Europe.
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Orientalism in art.
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Arts, European -- 19th century.
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Women artists -- Europe -- Psychology.
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Women -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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| LC no. |
95016143 |
| ISBN |
0415124891 (hbk.) |
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0415124905 (paperback) |
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