Travelling in different skins : gender identity in European women's oriental travelogues, 1850-1950 / [electronic resource]
by Bird, D�unlaith.
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BookSeries: Oxford modern languages and literature monographs: Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012Description: 1 online resource : ill.ISBN: 9780199949984 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Women travelers -- History -- 19th century -- Sources | Women travelers -- History -- 20th century -- Sources | Travelers' writings, European -- History and criticism | Women travelers -- Psychology -- History -- Sources | Europeans -- Orient -- Psychology -- History -- Sources | Gender identity -- History -- 19th century -- Sources | Gender identity -- History -- 20th century -- Sources | Women travelers -- Sexual behavior -- Orient -- Sources | Orient -- Description and travelOnline resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: D�unlaith 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.
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D�unlaith 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.
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