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Women Writing/Women Written: The Case of Oriental Women in English Colonial Fiction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

Hager Ben Driss
Hager Ben Driss*
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Kairouan University, Tunisia
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Women's contribution to the building of the british empire has become by now undeniable. Standing at different vantagepoints, English women articulated, supported, and even innovated the colonial discourse. Though highly masculine in its ideological core, the Empire is far from being exclusively male in its rhetorical voice. Feminist postcolonial critics have shown British women's important participation in colonialism. McClintock, for example, claims that “white women were not the hapless onlookers of empire but were ambiguously complicit both as colonizers, privileged and restricted, acted upon and acting” (6).

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Review of Middle East Studies , Volume 35 , Issue 2 , Winter 2001 , pp. 159 - 174
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Copyright © Middle East Studies Association of North America 2001

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