[PDF] Gender Science And Authority In Womens Travel Writing eBook

Author : Michelle Medeiros
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 38,80 MB
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1498579760

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Gender, Science, and Authority in Women’s Travel Writing: Literary Perspectives on the Discourse of Natural History analyzes the interrelations among authority, gender and the scientific discipline of natural history in the works of transatlantic women travelers from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Michelle Medeiros sheds new light on our understanding of the literary perspectives of the discourse of natural history and how these viewpoints had a surprising impact in areas that went beyond scientific fields. This book advances the study of travel writing and gender in new directions by bringing together Latin American, European, and American women travelers who actively engaged in natural history discussions in their writings. By demonstrating how these women were only able to participate in intellectual enterprises by embarking on transatlantic voyages, this book discloses how the work produced by these travelers challenged and reshaped dominant discourses, bringing a new point of view to nineteenth and twentieth-centuries studies in Latin American history, literature, cultural studies, and history of science. Moreover, this book analyzes to what extent the approaches employed by female travel writers who wanted to engage in the production of knowledge has evolved in that time period, and to what degree such changes could be considered positive and more productive.

Author : MICHELLE. MEDEIROS
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 12,41 MB
Release : 2022-03-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781498579773

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This book combines Latin American literature, cultural and gender studies, and history of science to consider the literary perspective of the discourse of natural history in women's travel narratives, shedding a new light on the implications of women's contributions to nineteenth and twentieth-century transatlantic intellectual currents.

Author : Kristi Siegel
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,79 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780820449050

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Women experience and portray travel differently: Gender matters - irreducibly and complexly. Building on recent scholarship in women's travel writing, these provocative essays not only affirm the impact of gender, but also cast women's journeys against coordinates such as race, class, culture, religion, economics, politics, and history. The book's scope is unique: Women travelers extend in time from Victorian memsahibs to contemporary «road girls», and topics range from Anna Leonowens's slanted portrayal of Siam - later popularized in the movie, The King and I, to current feminist «descripting» of the male-road-buddy genre. The extensive array of writers examined includes Nancy Prince, Frances Trollope, Cameron Tuttle, Lady Mary Montagu, Catherine Oddie, Kate Karko, Frances Calderón de la Barca, Rosamond Lawrence, Zilpha Elaw, Alexandra David-Néel, Amelia Edwards, Erica Lopez, Paule Marshall, Bharati Mukherjee, and Marilynne Robinson.

Author : Clare Broome Saunders
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,91 MB
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317690257

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The issue of truth has been one of the most constant, complex, and contentious in the cultural history of travel writing. Whether the travel was undertaken in the name of exploration, pilgrimage, science, inspiration, self-discovery, or a combination of these elements, questions of veracity and authenticity inevitably arise. Women, Travel, and Truth is a collection of twelve essays that explore the manifold ways in which travel and truth interact in women's travel writing. Essays range in date from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in the eighteenth century to Jamaica Kincaid in the twenty-first, across such regions as India, Italy, Norway, Siberia, Austria, the Orient, the Caribbean, China and Mexico. Topics explored include blurred distinctions of fiction and non-fiction; travel writing and politics; subjectivity; displacement, and exile. Students and academics with interests in literary studies, history, geography, history of art, and modern languages will find this book an important reference.

Author : Britany Robinson
Publisher :
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 34,94 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Arts
ISBN :

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This thesis examines the niche of women's travel writing within the context of the conflicts women have faced in the field. Through historical research into the earliest women travel writers and their work, it becomes clear that this particularly defined niche that has since developed and grown is a result of both the cultural faux-pas that existed around the idea of early women's travel and the inherent dangers that women face while traveling to unfamiliar cultures. Although brave, independent women have always fought against the grain of gender roles, it took time for women to develop their own voice within the field of travel writing. Through surpassing these conflicts, women have developed a uniquely narrative voice that focuses on person, rather than place. Today, women travel writers have banded together in an impressive online community that nurtures, supports, and celebrates women who dare to escape their comfort zone and see the world--and especially those who write about it. A portion of this thesis was constructed through research of the history and online collections of women's travel writing, as well as several interviews with women travel writers, but the second half takes a more personal approach to the topic, incorporating the author's three-month trip through Southeast Asia and the writing that resulted from that adventure. Through networking relationships with prominent women travel writers and her first-hand experience with creating and developing a travel blog, the author shares the process of breaking into the field and discovers a helpful community to support this endeavor.

Author : Floris Meens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 24,43 MB
Release : 2018-12-06
Category :
ISBN : 0429017901

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Over the last couple of decades there has been a strong academic interest in how individuals interact with each other while en route. Yet, even if various studies have informed us about present-day realities of travel companionships, we know little about the influence of gender both on these realities, as well as on the discourse in which these are being narrated. This book aims to establish an agenda for the study of companionship in travel writing by offering a collection of new essays which study texts that belong to the broad category of pre-modern and modern travel literature. Chapters explore the differences and similarities in the ways that women and men in the past chose to describe their experiences with, and/or their ideas about companionship, and specifically reveals the influence of gender norms, conventions, restrictions, and stereotypes. This is the first book which looks at the long-term, interdisciplinary, and genuinely international history of gendered discourses on companionship in travel writing. It will be of interest to scholars and students from a wide variety of disciplines, including cultural and social history, as well as cultural, literary, gender, travel, and tourism studies.

Author : Gigi Adair
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 34,96 MB
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1622738705

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This edited collection poses crucial questions about the relationship between gender and genre in travel writing, asking how gender shapes formal and thematic approaches to the various generic forms employed to represent and recreate travel. While the question of the genre of travel writing has often been debated (is it a genre, a hybrid genre, a sub-genre of autobiography?), and recent years have been much attention to travel writing and gender, these have rarely been combined. This book sheds light on how the gendered nature of writing and reading about travel affect the genre choices and strategies of writers, as well as the way in which travel writing is received. It reconsiders traditional and frequently studied forms of travel writing, both European and non-European. In addition, it pursues questions about the connections between travel writing and other genres, such as the novel and films, minor forms including journalism and blogging, and new sub-genres such as the ‘new nature writing’; focusing in particular on the political ramifications of genre in travel writing. The collection is international in focus with discussions of works by authors from Europe, Asia, Australia, and both North and South America; consequently, it will be of great interest to scholars and historians in those regions.

Author : Lavinia Spalding
Publisher : Travelers' Tales
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 35,34 MB
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1609520912

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In The Best Women’s Travel Writing, Volume 10: True Stories from Around the World, thirty celebrated and emerging writers invite you to ride shotgun as they travel the globe to discover new places, people, and facets of themselves. The essays are as diverse as the destinations, the common thread being fresh, compelling storytelling that will make you laugh, weep, wish you were there, or thank your lucky stars you weren’t. The Best Women’s Travel Writing speaks to the reasons why we travel—and how travel changes our lives. In The Best Women’s Travel Writing, Volume 10: True Stories from Around the World, you’ll: Study the ancient art of belly dancing in Egypt Go day-drinking with a sea captain in Croatia Scuba dive through an underground cave in Mexico Run from massive exploding balloons in Burma Embed with the military in Afghanistan Experience a different kind of time in Argentina Go dogsledding in Finland Confront heartache, pain, and a deadly creature in Indonesia Negotiate with smugglers in Mongolia Marry a stranger at Burning Man ... and much, much more.

Author : Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore
Publisher : Advances in Hospitality and To
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,16 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781771884686

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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Advances in Hospitality and Tourism Book Series -- About the Series Editor -- Acknowledgments -- 1: Introduction: Women and Travel, Past and Present -- Section I: Historical Accounts of Women's Travel -- 2: Women and the Tourist Gaze: Historical and Contemporary Issues for Women Traveling in Male-Dominated Public Space -- 3: Opportunity to Escape: The OE and New Zealand Women Travelers -- Section II: Women's Travel Issues and Constraints -- 4: A Time and Space of One's Own: Women's Resistance to the Motherhood Discourse on Family Holidays -- 5: Citizens of the World: Brazilian Women's Performances in Independent Travel -- 6: Iranian Women Traveling: Exploring an Unknown Universe -- Section III: Gendered Approaches to Studying Women's Travel -- 7: Expanding Understanding: Using the 'Choraster' to Provide a Voice for the Female Traveler -- 8: Women's Travel Narratives of Paris and the Emotional Geographies of Place -- 9: Risk Perception of Asian Solo Female Travelers: An Autoethnographic Approach -- Section IV: Contemporary Women's Travel: Trends and Experiences -- 10: Independent Women Travelers' Experiences and Identity Development through Multi-sensual Experiences in New Zealand -- 11: Travelers, Tourists, Migrants, or Workers? Transformative Journeys of Migrant Women -- 12: Home Holidays as Real Holidays? Midlife Single Women's Experiences -- 13: Women Traveling for Health Tourism: Results from Focus Groups in Austria -- Section V: Industry Perspectives -- 14: Fear and Loathing: Women Travelers and Safety in India -- 15: The Role of a Female-Only Online Hospitality Network in the Changing World of Women's Independent Travel -- Index