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In Orientalism, Occidentalism and the Control of Women, Laura Nader establishes occidentalism as a process that is parallel to orientalism. The author argues that the cultural comparisons and the notion of positional superiority attempt to convince women to remain subdued to the patriarchal norm.

In Occidentalism: The World Turned Upside-down, James Carrier takes Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) in order to construct an understanding of the production of societies deemed as "other" or "alien." From an anthropological perspective, the author focuses on the process of occidentalization of the west and examines the distinction between gift and commodity societies.