Bøger af Kim M. Phillips

Sexuality in modern western culture is central to identity but the tendency to define by sexuality does not apply to the premodern past.

Drawing on medieval accounts of the earliest European journeys to China, India, Mongolia, and southeast Asia, Before Orientalism explores European attitudes toward Asian eating habits, sexual practices, femininities, and civility, reconstructing a precolonial vision of the East that was often neutral or admiring.