During the event, participants delivered keynote speeches and engaged in themed discussions on the allure of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and the illustrious legacy of ancient Chinese women. In ...

It is rather a curious reflection that in those countries where women's rights are most completely non-existent, there the specially womanly duties of women are the most grossly neglected.

Literary theorist Gayatri Spivak noted how even European feminist movements, in dealing with non-western women, have reproduced 19th-century colonial representations and adopted their oriental ...

During the colonial period, the veil became enmeshed in gendered orientalism, resulting in Muslim women being designated the bearers of Islamic tradition. Today, using gendered aesthetics to ...

Doha, Qatar: With the participation of over 300 researchers from 50 countries, the first edition of the International Conference on Orientalism began in Doha yesterday. The two-day event ...

These tropes form a part of what Palestinian-American intellectual and activist Edward Said called Orientalism. His seminal 1978 book of the same name explores the ways Western experts ...