- Hardcover: 184 pages
- Publisher: Greystone Bks (Aug 19 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1553651189
- ISBN-13: 978-1553651185
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 567 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #802,642 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Stunningly illustrated with photos and sketches,… an impressive artistic interpretation of the East." -- Calgary Herald
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An exploration of the enduring and exotic fascination that the Middle East has exerted on women of the West.
When Lady Mary Wortley Montagu visited baths in Turkey in 1717, she was the first European woman on record to have ever done so. Montagu’s account of her journey, along with sporadic reports by other travelers, slowly brought the area now known as the Middle East into the consciousness of Western women. By the early 1800s, the taste for things Oriental had firmly gripped Europe.
Richly illustrated with photos and sketches, Dreaming of East examines not just the exotic trappings of the Middle East but the heady freedoms it offered Western women. Trained to defer to men, women travelers were suddenly free to make their own choices. For a woman all too used to her inferior status at home, this venture into the land of latent sexuality and freedom was exhilarating. When she eventually returned to her own society and found herself yet again relegated to second place, she would never be content there again.
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ISABEL BURTON venerated three ideals: Richard Burton, the East, and Liberty. Read the first page
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Cloistered East a place of freedom for women!, May 15 2007
By Anastasia Ashman "founder of expat+HAREM, the... - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Dreaming Of East (Paperback)
For generations of Western women, Eastern travel has signified freedom. Yet in the more `liberal' West this does not compute. How can the cloistered East be a place of emancipation? Through a series of portraits of 18th to 20th century women who traveled to the eastern Ottoman empire - Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Iraq and Turkey - Hodgson demonstrates the calculus. Among Eastern liberties counted by women like Isabel Burton, the wife of adventurer Richard Burton: `the inconsequence of time' and the loose clothing. The Canadian author is a book designer, and the engravings, paintings, sketches and photographs make this book a jewel to behold.
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Travelogues of early women explorers, Sep 24 2006
By Shannon B Davis "Nepenthe" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Dreaming Of East (Hardcover)
What a fascinating book! While Westerners of today often imagine the Middle East as a place where women are oppressed, European ladies of the 18th to early 20th century went there for freedom from the restrictive Western culture. The book quickly acknowledges that many of these women saw only what they expected to see in the land of Arabian Nights. Most of these women would have been deemed Orientalists by Edward Said. Nevertheless, their journals provide an interesting perspective on European as well as North African/Middle Eastern culture.Many of these women were early feminists, cross-dressing as men to gain freedom, exploring where few other Westerners, let alone women, had before. This book paints a fascinating picture of these early female travellers to one of the most interesting areas of the world.
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