Introduction; 1. The Orient as Stereotype and Phantasm; 2. Women from the Outside: Obstacle and Transparency; 3. Women's Prisons; 4. Women's Quarters; 5. Couples; 6. The Figures of the Harem: Dress and Jewelry; 7. Inside the Harem: The Rituals; 8. Song and Dance: Almehs and Bayaderes; 9. Oriental Sapphism; 10. The Colonial Harem: Images of a Suberoticism; Notes; Selected Bibliography
Summary
A collection of picture postcards of Algerian women exploited by the French, this "album" illustrates a powerful analysis of the distorting, denigrating effects of their presence on Algerian Society
Analysis
Harems
Photography of women
Postcards Algeria
Women Social conditions Algeria
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references
Notes
English translation of the French, "Le harem colonial."
