Embracing the East: White Women and American Orientalism

[AHMAD AL-HOUT]

Embracing the East: White Women and American Orientalism Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | ISBN: 0195145348 | edition 2002 | PDF | 256 pages | 2,46 mb As exemplified by Madame Butterfly, East-West relations have often been expressed as the relations between the masculine, dominant West and the feminine, submissive East. Yet, this binary model does not account for the important role of white women in the construction of Orientalism. Mari Yoshihara's study examines a wide range of white women who were attracted to Japan and China in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and shows how, through their engagement with Asia, these women found new forms of expression, power, and freedom that were often denied to them in other realms of their lives in America. She demonstrates how white women's attraction to Asia shaped and was shaped by a complex mix of exoticism for the foreign, admiration for the refined, desire for power and control, and love and compassion for the people of Asia. uploading.com depositfiles.com uploadbox.com megaupload.com