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Reading travelers: Find your historical context
Posted in culture, history, identity, memoir, society, women, tagged adventure, American, Anna Leonowens, Asia, Beryl Markham, British, Chow Yun Fat, colonial literature, culture, dialogue, Ella Maillart, empire, expat, expatriate, film, historical, Idina Sackville, Isabella Bird, Jodie Foster, John Gullick, Journeywoman, King of Siam, memoir, mores, Ottoman, Oxford, reinvention, reputation, sex pilgrimage, Southeast Asia, travel, travelogue, wisdom, women on July 14, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Reacting to taboo
Posted in culture, friendship, harem, history, identity, memoir, society, taboo, women, tagged anachronism, Asia Minor, cloistered, enabling, expat, harem, invisibility, Muslim world, Oxford, refuge, stereotype, taboo, TED, TEDGlobal, unthinkable, virtual, wisdom, women on June 25, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Taboo’s unintended cloaking effect: we banish from our thoughts the most unimaginable human acts, making us blind to them in our midst
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