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Gender on ice : American ideologies of polar expeditions / Lisa Bloom.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bloom, Lisa E., 1958-
- Series:
- American culture (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; 10.
- American culture ; v. 10
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular culture--United States.
- Popular culture.
- Feminist criticism.
- North Pole--Discovery and exploration.
- North Pole.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (176 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1993.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Bloom focuses on the conquest of the North Pole as she reveals how popular print and visual media defined and shaped American national ideologies from the early twentieth century to the present.
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Passion for Blankness: U.S. and British Polar Discourse; 1. Nationalism on Ice: Technology and Masculinity at the North Pole; 2. National Geographic Society and Magazine: Technologies of Nationalism, Race, and Gender; 3. White Fade-out? Heroism and the National Geographic in the Age of Multiculturalism; 4. Science and Writing: Two Adventures of Male Embodiment; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-158) nd index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-8440-5
- OCLC:
- 476093317
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