Travelling in different skins : gender identity in European women's oriental travelogues, 1850-1950 / Dunlaith Bird.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bird, Dunlaith, 1982-

Series:

Oxford modern languages and literature monographs.

Oxford modern languages and literature monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women travelers.

Travelers' writings--History and criticism.

Travelers' writings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Dúnlaith 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 Olympe Audouard, Isabella Bird, Isabelle Eberhardt, and Freya Stark vagabondage is a means of extending the parameters by which 'women' are defined.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction: Travelling in Different Skins; 2. Walk Like a Man: Vagabondage and Gender Construction; 3. Performance in Motion: Gender Identity, Performativity, and Travel Writing; 4. The Inky Body: Writing Corporeality; 5. Bearded Queens and Amazons: Cross-Dressing, Disguise, and Deception; 6. Selling the Skirt: Women's Travel Writing and the Literary Market; 7. Skirting the Issue: Intelligibility and Recognition; 8. A Woman's Place: Spatial Dynamics of the Orient; Conclusion: Casting Skins

Appendix: European and American Ladies in Iraq. Regulations Regarding Residence and TravellingBibliography: Bound in Different Skins; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on July 16, 2012).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786613687647

1-280-77725-7

0-19-165030-7

OCLC:

922971119