Gendering Orientalism Race Femininity and Representation - Gender, Racism, Ethnicity Series Author:Reina Lewis, Routledge To what extent did white European women contribute to the imperial cultures of the second half of the nineteenth century?In contrast to most cultural histories of imperialism which analyze Orientalist images of women rather than images by women, Gendering Orientalism focuses on how women themselves contributed. Drawing on the little-known work o... more »f Henriette Brown and other "lost" women Orientalist artists and the literary works of George Eliot, she challenges masculinist assumptions relating to the stability and homogeneity of the Orientalist gaze.« less