Orient definition

Orient the existing and persisting image of traditional Oriental harem ladies, on the one hand, and the reality of modern(izing) (Ottoman) Muslim women whom they met on the platform of the international woman’s movement, on the other hand. The Oriental harem had been, as Xxxxx points out, a topic which sold books. European women travelling or temporarily living in the Ottoman Empire, and the Middle East, who wrote on their visits to the women’s rooms of the Ottoman houses found a ready audience to share their experiences with. Starting with the letters of Lady Xxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx in the early eighteenth century, harem literature reached its zenith in the 1890s, but continued to remain popular until the foundation of the Republic of Turkey.5 Even then the ghost of the leisured harem lady lingered on, if only to compare the new, modern Turkish women favourably with. The way Ottoman women and their lives in the setting of a harem were described by European female travellers, however, mirrored the preoccupations of the authors and their own changing gender relations rather than an objective reality and shifted accordingly over time.6 By the beginning of the twentieth century English publications started to reflect an interest in those Ottoman Muslim women who were increasingly becoming socially active in public. As Xxxxxxxxxxx shows, however, the European and other Western press was not yet 4 Xxxxx Xxxxx, Rethinking Orientalism: Women, Travel and the Ottoman Harem, London & New York: I.B. Tauris, 2004, 12-14. Xxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, Harems of the Mind: Passages of Western Art and Literature, New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2000, 45-55. See also Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxx Xxxx and the Oriental Woman, New York: St. Xxxxxx’x Press, 1988 and Xxxxx Xxxxxxx, Loti'nin Kadınları: Osmanlı Hareminin Gizemli Dünyası, İstanbul: Dünya Yayınları, 1999. 5 Xxxxx, Rethinking Orientalism, 12-14. 6 Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxx of the Mind; Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Women’s Orients: English Women and the Middle East, 1718 - 1918, Basingstoke: MacMillan, 1992. ready to immediately let go of the harem “plaything” to have it replaced by the new Ottoman woman.7 The texts on Ottoman (and other) women living in harems produced by European and other Western women not only reflected the preoccupations of its authors concerning relations within the own society, but also its relations with “other” societies: the innate ideas of superiority of one’s own society versus the inferiority of another society as disp...
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Orient means to bring in relation to, or adjust to, the surroundings, situation, or environment; to place with the most important parts facing in certain directions; to set or arrange in a determinate position: to orient a building.

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