Gendering Orientalism : race, femininity and representation

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• List of plates = ⅸ
• Acknowledgements = xiii
• Introduction : making connections = 1
• 1 Race ­femininity ­representation = 12
• Said's Orientalism and his critics = 15
• Problems with the 'death of the Author' = 22
• Writers, readers and critics = 30
• Women representing the other : Villette = 35
• 2 Professional opportunities for women in art and literature = 53
• The separate spheres : problems of a professional identity = 53
• Opportunities for women in art = 56
• Opportunities for women in literature = 67
• Nation, empire and culture = 73
• 3 Gender, genre and nation : Henriette Browne, the making of a woman Orientalist artist = 85
• The reception of Browne's religious works in Britain and France = 86
• Making a name : the establishment of Browne's artistic identity in Britain = 97
• Orientalism in the visual arts = 109
• 4 'Only women should go to Turkey' : Henriette Browne and the female Orientalist gaze = 127
• Critical responses to Browne's Harem Interiors, 1861 = 129
• Using experience to challenge stereotypes : women write about the harem = 144
• The female gaze = 161
• From the subjective to the objective : ethnographic discourses of race and nation = 171
• The problematic authority of the female Orientalist gaze = 178
• 5 Aliens at home and Britons abroad : George Eliot's Orientalization of Jews in Daniel Deronda = 191
• Evolution, organicism, fiction and Jews : contemporary responses to Daniel Deronda = 193
• Daniel Deronda and the formation of an Anglo­Jewish identity = 201
• George Eliot and Jewish sources = 207
• Shifting stereotypes : origins, heredity, identity = 212
• Distance and difference : the problems of reading Daniel Deronda = 221
• Afterword : Gendering Orientalism = 236
• Select bibliography = 242
• Index = 259