Seeing through western eyes, a study of three women's Holy Land travel narratives

I examine how three European women used the people of the Middle East to construct their selves in response to the constraints of religion and gender in their societies. Harriet Martineau ('Eastern Life: Present and Past', 1846) was a Unitarian, but embraced atheism. In the Middle East she...

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Main Author: Fast, Kerry Louane
Language:en_US
Published: 2007
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1993/1792