The 'eastern-woman question': Martineau and nightingale visit the harem

Nineteenth-Century Contexts

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 63-87

  Matus, Jill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; EGYPT; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FEMINISM; FRIEND; HISTORY; HUMAN RELATION; LEGAL ASPECT; MARRIAGE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STATUS; SPOUSE; TRAVEL; UNITED KINGDOM; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

ATTITUDE; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EGYPT; FEMINISM; FRIENDS; GREAT BRITAIN; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MARRIAGE; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; SPOUSES; TRAVEL; WOMEN; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS; WOMEN, WORKING;

EID: 0006072025     PISSN: 08905495     EISSN: 14772663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08905499908583468     Document Type: Article

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