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This document summarizes a paper written by Diane M. Huddleston titled "The Harem: Looking Behind the Veil". The paper examines how European male travel writers in the 18th-19th centuries portrayed harems based on their imaginations, as they were not allowed to observe them firsthand. Their depictions sexualized Eastern women and portrayed harems as places of uncontrolled male sexuality. However, European women were later permitted to visit harems and wrote eyewitness accounts that dispelled many false assu

Author

Roxana Coman

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