Abstract
This chapter reverses the Orientalist lens that Edward Said and other critics of cultural imperialism have explored. It evaluates the judgments of colonizing societies with regard to the standards that they impose upon women’s bodies. This approach identifies the racial-cultural aesthetic of power that operates in the aftermath of colonialism but without acknowledging that aftermath. Civilizing narratives that haunt the afterlife of colonialism produce a differential expectation for the cultural/social comportment of women of color, whether they remain in the geopolitical regions that were colonized or whether they are located in Western societies. These narratives are explored through dress codes for various companies and the model United Nations, as well as Frantz Fanon’s ruminations on Algerian women.
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