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Moving lives : twentieth-century women's travel writing / Sidonie Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Sidonie.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Travelers' writings--History and criticism.
- Travelers' writings.
- Women travelers--History--20th century.
- Women travelers.
- Travel writing--History--20th century.
- Travel writing.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (283 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Moving Lives Sidonie Smith explores how women's travel and travel writing in the twentieth century were shaped by particular modes of mobility, asking how the form of travel affected the kind of narrative written.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Vehicular Gender; 1. The Logic of Travel and Technologies of Motion; 2. On Foot: Gender at Ground Level; 3. In the Air: Aerial Gender and the Familiarity of Flight; 4. By Rail: Trains, Tracks, and the Derailments of Identity; 5. On the Road: (Auto)Mobility and Gendered Detours; Coda: Electronic Transport in Cyberspace; Notes; Works Cited; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-229) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-8774-9
- OCLC:
- 476095030
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