Veiled figures : women, modernity, and the spectres of orientalism / Teresa Heffernan.
"In Veiled Figures, Teresa Heffernan explores how the clash of civilizations is perpetuated by the rhetoric of veiling and unveiling. Drawing on travel narratives, harem literature, and other stories, Heffernan argues that womens bodies have been used to exacerbate the divide between religion a...
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Toronto :
University Of Toronto Press,
[2016]
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