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EBOOK Travelling in Different Skins:Gender Identity in European Women's Oriental Travelogues, 1850-1

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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191650307
EAN: 9CB8ED4AEB
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Stron: 288
Data wydania: 2012
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Dunlaith Bird argues that vagabondage - a physical and textual        elaboration of gender identity in motion - emerges as a totemic concept in European        women's travel writing from 1850. For travellers including Olympe Audouard, Isabella        Bird, Isabelle Eberhardt, and Freya Stark,vagabondage is a means of pushing out the        physical, geographical, and textual parameters by which 'women' are        defined.Travelling in Different Skins explores the negotiations of European women        travel writers from 1850-1950 within the traditionally male-oriented discourses of        colonialism and Orientalism. Moving from historical overview to close textual        reading, it traces a complex web of tacit collusion and gleeful defiance. These        women improvise access to the highly gendered 'imaginative geography' of the Orient.          Tactics including cross-dressing, commerciality, and the effacement of their        malecompanions are used to carve out a space for their unconventional and often        sexually-hybrid constructions.Using a composite theoretical basis of the later        critical work of Judith Butler and Edward Said, this comparative study of British        and French colonial empires and gender norms draws out the nuances in these        travellers' constructions of gender identity. Women travel writers are shown to play        an important role in the legacy of sexual experimentation and self-creation in the        Orient, traditionally associated with male writers including Gide and Pierre Loti,        and now ripe for critical re-evaluation.This study demonstrates how these women use        lived experiences of restriction and negotiation to elaborate advanced theories of        motion and gender construction, presaging the concerns of twenty-first century        feminism and post-colonialism.

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