Gender, Modernity And Liberty Middle Eastern And Western Women's Writings A Critical Sourcebook

This book returns to circulation a wealth of important documents by Middle Eastern and Occidental women of the late Ottoman empire. Tracing women's involvement in campaigns of gender and national emancipation, these fascinating texts show that, contrary to the popular notion of the Middle Eastern woman trapped within the harem without access to outside education, there was in fact a fruitful mutual dialogue between the Western women travelers and the women in the regions they visited.Lewis, Reina is the author of 'Gender, Modernity And Liberty Middle Eastern And Western Women's Writings A Critical Sourcebook', published 2006 under ISBN 9781860649578 and ISBN 1860649572.