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ajiss-460		ajiss-460		31	.pdf	application/pdf	11990	504	40	Despite the fact that patriarchy subalternized western women within metropolitan societies, feminist Orientalists spread the common impression that just as western/European society is superior to African/Asian society, and just as western men are superior to eastern men, in the same way west- ern/white women are superior to black/Asian women. Besides, I am told, your Asiatic beauties are the most convenient women alive, for they have no souls; positively there is nothing in nature I should like so much as ladies without souls; soul, here, is the utter ruin of half of the sex.18 Although western women were not treated any better by western men, as “the Victorian age’s official method of viewing women” reduced “them Hasan: The Orientalization of Gender 31 to body, to possession, to physical object,”19 the colonial presence made native women more vulnerable, as they were objectified and commodified along with other colonial spoils.	cache/ajiss-460.pdf	txt/ajiss-460.txt