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Frontiers of Femininity - A New Historical Geography of the Nineteenth-Century American West (Hardcover)
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Frontiers of Femininity - A New Historical Geography of the Nineteenth-Century American West (Hardcover)
Series: Space, Place and Society
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British explorer and professional travel writer Isabella Bird is,
to the modern eye, a study in contradictions. One of the premier
mountaineers and world explorers of her generation, she was, in
1892, the first woman elected to London's Royal Geographic Society.
And yet Bird's books on her travels are filled with depictions of
herself and other women that reinforce the 'properly feminine'
domestic and behavioral codes of her day.In this fascinating and
highly original collection of essays, Karen Morin explores the
self-expression of travel writers like Bird by giving geographic
context to their work. With a rare degree of clarity the author
examines relationships among nineteenth-century American
expansionism, discourses about gender, and writings of women who
traveled and lived in the American West in the late nineteenth
century - British travelers, American journalists, a Native
American tribal leader, and female naturalists.Drawing from a rich
diversity of primary sources, from published travelogues and
unpublished archival sources such as letters and diaries to
newspaper reportage, Morin considers ways in which women's writing
was influenced by the material circumstances of travel in addition
to the various social norms that circumscribed female roles.
Ranging in scale from the interior of train cars and the homes of
these women to the colonial projects of conquering the American
West, the author illustrates how geography was fundamental to the
formation of women's identity and greatly influenced the gendered
and colonialist language found in their writing.
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Imprint: |
Syracuse University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Space, Place and Society |
Release date: |
November 2008 |
First published: |
December 2008 |
Authors: |
Karen Morin
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Dimensions: |
234 x 155 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
278 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8156-3167-5 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-8156-3167-7 |
Barcode: |
9780815631675 |
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