SOURCE: “Veiled Fantasies: Cultural and Sexual Difference in the Discourse of Orientalism,” in Colonial Fantasies: Towards a Feminist Reading of Orientalism, Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. 39-67.
In the following excerpt, Yeğenoğlu explores Western writers' attitudes toward the Oriental veiled woman and discusses the link between Western masculinist and colonialist positions as these positions relate to the Oriental other.
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