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The colonial harem

Malek Alloula c1986 © Regents of the University of Minnesota
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  • 9780816613830 (hardcover)
  • 9780816613847 (paper)
  • 9780816682188 (ebook)
Subject
  • Comparative/World
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  • Frontmatter
  • Introduction by Barbara Harlow (page ix)
  • 1. The Orient as Stereotype and Phantasm (page 3)
  • 2. Women from the Outside: Obstacle and Transparency (page 7)
  • 3. Women's Prisons (page 17)
  • 4. Women's Quarters (page 27)
  • 5. Couples (page 37)
  • 6. The Figures of the Harem: Dress and Jewelry (page 49)
  • 7. Inside the Harem: The Rituals (page 67)
  • 8. Song and Dance: Almehs and Bayaderes (page 85)
  • 9. Oriental Sapphism (page 95)
  • 10. The Colonial Harem: Images of Suberoticism (page 105)
  • Notes (page 127)
  • Selected Bibliography (page 135)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
IJAHS 22.3 (1989): 529-530 http://www.jstor.org/stable/220223
AE 15.2 (May 1988): 393-394 http://www.jstor.org/stable/644772
JAFH 29.2 (1988): 301-311 http://www.jstor.org/stable/182386
WRB 4.4 (Jan. 1987): 7-9 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4019983
DIA 21.1 (Spring 1991): 24-25 http://www.jstor.org/stable/465209
FS 16.2 (Summer 1990): 345-380 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3177854
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