Meyda Yegenoglu investigates the intersection between postColonial and Feminist criticism, via the Western fascination with the veiled women of the Orient.
Her original and compelling argument calls into question dualistic conceptions of identity and difference, West and East, masculinist assumptions of Orientalism, and Western Feminist discour.
Linking representations of cultural and sexual difference, she shows the Oriental woman to have functioned as the veiled interior of Western identity.
Meyda Yegenoglu investigates the intersection between postColonial and Feminist criticism, via the Western fascination with the veiled women of the Orient