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Karen M. Morin

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Description:British explorer and aristocrat Isabella Bird is, to the modern eye, a study in contradictions. One of the premier mountaineers and world explorers of her generation, in 1892 she was the first woman elected to London's Royal Geographic Society. And yet Bird's books on her travels are filled with depictions of herself and other women that reinforce the "properly feminine" domestic and behavioral codes of her day.In this fascinating and highly original collection of essays Karen Morin explores the self-expression of travel-writers like Bird by giving geographic context to their work. With a rare degree of clarity the author examines relationships among nineteenth century American expansionism, discourses about gender, and writings of women who traveled and lived in the American West in the late nineteenth century-British travelers, American journalists, a Native American tribal leader, and woman naturalists. Drawing from a rich diversity of primary sources, from published travelogues to unpublished archival sources such as letters and diaries, to newspaper reportage, Morin considers ways in which women's writing was influenced by the material circumstances of travel in addition to the various social norms that circumscribed female roles. Ranging in scale from the interior of train cars, and the homes of these women, to the colonial projects of conquering the American West, the author illustrates how geography was fundamental to the formation of women's identity and greatly influenced the gendered and colonialist language found in their writing.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Frontiers of Femininity: A New Historical Geography of the Ninteenth-Century American West. To get started finding Frontiers of Femininity: A New Historical Geography of the Ninteenth-Century American West, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: British explorer and aristocrat Isabella Bird is, to the modern eye, a study in contradictions. One of the premier mountaineers and world explorers of her generation, in 1892 she was the first woman elected to London's Royal Geographic Society. And yet Bird's books on her travels are filled with depictions of herself and other women that reinforce the "properly feminine" domestic and behavioral codes of her day.In this fascinating and highly original collection of essays Karen Morin explores the self-expression of travel-writers like Bird by giving geographic context to their work. With a rare degree of clarity the author examines relationships among nineteenth century American expansionism, discourses about gender, and writings of women who traveled and lived in the American West in the late nineteenth century-British travelers, American journalists, a Native American tribal leader, and woman naturalists. Drawing from a rich diversity of primary sources, from published travelogues to unpublished archival sources such as letters and diaries, to newspaper reportage, Morin considers ways in which women's writing was influenced by the material circumstances of travel in addition to the various social norms that circumscribed female roles. Ranging in scale from the interior of train cars, and the homes of these women, to the colonial projects of conquering the American West, the author illustrates how geography was fundamental to the formation of women's identity and greatly influenced the gendered and colonialist language found in their writing.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Frontiers of Femininity: A New Historical Geography of the Ninteenth-Century American West. To get started finding Frontiers of Femininity: A New Historical Geography of the Ninteenth-Century American West, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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