Gender and sexuality have long held an important place in western attitudestowards the people and regions of the world—from the titillating accounts ofharem life in the Middle East to terrifying captivity narratives of NorthAmerica. The Erotic Margin is a first attempt to pull together the large,disparate, and often contradictory literature, and view it as a corpus. Schickargues that such images served to construct spatial difference, and therebyhelped Europe represent its own place in the world
