Front cover image for The colonial harem

The colonial harem

Print Book, English, 1986
Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1986
xxii, 135 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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The orient as stereotype and phantasm
Women from the outside: obstacle and transparency
Women's prisons
Women's quarters
Couples
The figures of the harem: dress and jewelry
Inside the harem: The rituals
Song and dance: Almehs and bayaderes
Oriental Sapphism
The colonial harem: images of a suberoticism
Translation of: Le harem colonial, published in Geneva and Paris in 1981