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Ce livre présente les récits de nombreuses voyageuses d’expression française en Orient aux XIXe et XXe siècles, certaines bien connues du public, d’autres totalement oubliées. Leurs récits sont examinés à travers deux paradigmes principaux, celui du désert (espace ouvert) et celui du harem (espace fermé), le premier semblant peu à peu remplacer le second. Natascha Ueckmann met en lumière les particularités du regard féminin sur l’Orient et observe les attitudes des voyageuses d’un point de vue résolument féministe. Le féminisme est ici utilisé comme instrument d’analyse littéraire, mais sans aucune forme de complaisance à l’égard des préjugés des voyageuses et de leur attitude parfois coloniale à l’égard des Orientaux et des Orientales. Sans nier le désir d’autonomie et de découverte de l’altérité des voyageuses, Natascha Ueckmann dessine ainsi les contours d’un orientalisme au féminin qu’elle examine avec les instruments des études de genre et des études postcoloniales. Elle cherche à mettre en évidence la façon dont les femmes européennes s’inventent elles-mêmes en se situant dans un champ de tension entre désir de découverte de l’ailleurs et volonté de confirmer leurs idées préconçues. Un ouvrage résolument actuel sur les questions de féminisme et sur la notion d’orientalisme.

History --- Literature --- Ethnic Studies --- Women's Studies --- altérité --- colonialisme --- désert --- féminisme --- explorateur --- genre --- voyage en Orient --- voyageuse --- harem --- Islam --- orientalisme

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This provides a commentary on images, specifically on a series of French postcards depicting mainly eroticized "scenes from Algerian life" under colonial rule during the first three decades of this century (which Alloula calls the "Golden Age of the colonial postcard"). The aim is to address, to some extent create, a new audience, one capable of seeing through the immediate scene of the images in order to view the machinery of colonialism at work, behind the scene. Edward Said has cited The Colonial Harem as an "excellent example" of the kind of post-colonial text that "open[s] the [Western] culture to experiences of the Other which have remained 'outside' (and have been repressed or framed in a context of confrontational hostility) the norms manufactured by 'insiders' and that "[t]he pictorial capture of colonized people by colonizer" is made intelligible for an audience of modem European readers" ("Opponents, Audiences, Constituencies and Community"). This view, by no means unanimous,) is nonetheless roughly accurate in at least its most general point: Alloula does intend to bring the "outside" closer to the "inside" and, in doing so, to reverse the distinction by presenting not only a critique of political "capture," but a counter-image of resistance as well.

Harems --- Photography of women --- Postcards --- Women --- 77.041 --- CDL --- Harem --- Polygyny --- Cards, Postal --- Picture postcards --- Post cards --- Postal cards --- Postal stationery --- Social conditions --- Algeria --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- History of Africa --- anno 1900-1999

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Mothers, wives, concubines, entertainers, attendants, officials, maids, drudges. By offering the first comparative view of the women who lived, worked, and served in royal courts around the globe, this work opens a new perspective on the monarchies that have dominated much of human history. Written by leading historians, anthropologists, and archeologists, these lively essays take us from Mayan states to twentieth-century Benin in Nigeria, to the palace of Japanese Shoguns, the Chinese Imperial courts, eighteenth-century Versailles, Mughal India, and beyond. Together they investigate how women's roles differed, how their roles changed over time, and how their histories can illuminate the structures of power and societies in which they lived. This work also furthers our understanding of how royal courts, created to project the authority of male rulers, maintained themselves through the reproductive and productive powers of women.

Courtesans --- Courts and courtiers --- Ladies-in-waiting --- Favorites, Royal --- Harems --- Courtisanes --- Cour et courtisans --- Dames d'honneur --- Favorites --- Harems (Femmes) --- History. --- Histoire --- J4201 --- J4624 --- Harem --- Polygyny --- Court favorites --- Royal favorites --- Queens --- Court and courtiers --- Courtiers --- Kings and rulers --- Manners and customs --- Prostitutes --- History --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- communities -- social classes and groups -- upper class, elite --- Japan: Politics and law -- state -- emperor --- african royal harem. --- anthropology. --- archeology. --- attendants. --- aztec royalty. --- benin. --- chinese imperial courts. --- concubines. --- drudges. --- entertainers. --- french royalty. --- gender and power. --- gender studies. --- global history. --- history. --- human history. --- japanese shogun. --- maids. --- male rulers. --- mayan states. --- men and women. --- monarchy. --- mothers. --- mughal india. --- nigeria. --- nobility. --- officials. --- patriarchal society. --- productive power. --- reproductive power. --- royal courts. --- royalty. --- sex. --- versailles. --- wives. --- women in royal courts. --- world history.

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If you thought you knew the story of Anna in The King and I, think again. As this riveting biography shows, the real life of Anna Leonowens was far more fascinating than the beloved story of the Victorian governess who went to work for the King of Siam. To write this definitive account, Susan Morgan traveled around the globe and discovered new information that has eluded researchers for years. Anna was born a poor, mixed-race army brat in India, and what followed is an extraordinary nineteenth-century story of savvy self-invention, wild adventure, and far-reaching influence. At a time when most women stayed at home, Anna Leonowens traveled all over the world, witnessed some of the most fascinating events of the Age of Empire, and became a well-known travel writer, journalist, teacher, and lecturer. She remains the one and only foreigner to have spent significant time inside the royal harem of Siam. She emigrated to the United States, crossed all of Russia on her own just before the revolution, and moved to Canada, where she publicly defended the rights of women and the working class. The book also gives an engrossing account of how and why Anna became an icon of American culture in The King and I and its many adaptations.

Racially mixed people --- Women travelers --- Women journalists --- Women authors --- British --- Governesses --- Bi-racial people --- Biracial people --- Interracial people --- Mixed race people --- Mixed-racial people --- Mulattoes --- Multiracial people --- Peoples of mixed descent --- Ethnic groups --- Miscegenation --- Women as journalists --- Journalists --- Women in journalism --- Women in the mass media industry --- British people --- Britishers --- Britons (British) --- Brits --- Ethnology --- Child care workers --- Teachers --- Leonowens, Anna Harriette, --- Leonowens, Anna Harriette (Crawford), --- Mǣm ʻǢnnā, --- ʻǢnnā, --- Lēʻōnōwēn, ʻǢnnā, --- Leon Owens, Anna, --- Owens, Anna Leon, --- Halifax (N.S.) --- Montreal (Quebec) --- Thailand --- Halifax, N.S. --- הליפקס (N.S.) --- Halifaḳs (N.S.) --- Halifax Regional Municipality (N.S.) --- Tʻai-kuo --- Hsien-lo --- Muang-Thai --- Thaimaa --- Prates Thai --- Prades Thai --- Thaïlande --- Kingdom of Thailand --- Prathēt Thai --- Tailand --- Thailandia --- Thajsko --- Royal Thai Government --- Ratcha Anachak Thai --- Koninkryk van Thailand --- تايلاند --- Tāylānd --- Tailandia --- Reino de Tailandia --- Tayilande --- Royômo de Tayilande --- Tayland Krallığı --- Pratet Tai --- Thài-kok --- Тайланд --- Каралеўства Тайланд --- Karaleŭstva Taĭland --- Tailandya --- Tajland --- Kraljevina Tajland --- Кралство Тайланд --- Kralstvo Taĭland --- Siam --- Social life and customs --- 19th century. --- academic. --- anna leonowens. --- army brat. --- asia. --- asian history. --- biographical. --- biography. --- british colonies. --- colonial. --- colonialism. --- colonizers. --- governess. --- harem. --- india. --- journalism. --- journalist. --- king of siam. --- life story. --- military family. --- military. --- mixed race. --- musical theatre. --- musicals. --- pop culture. --- real life. --- research. --- revolution. --- royalty. --- scholarly. --- siam. --- strong women. --- teacher. --- the king and i. --- travel writer. --- true story. --- untold story. --- victorian literature. --- victorian.