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Making place, making self : travel, subjectivity, and sexual difference /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Birkeland, Inger J., 1964-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2005]
Subjects:
Women travelers > Psychology.
Feminist geography.
Tourism > Norway > North Cape (Magerøy Island) > Psychological aspects.
North Cape (Magerøy Island, Norway) > Description and travel.
Feminist theory.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • The journey to knowledge : place-openness
  • Tourism, subjectivity, and self : the North Cape
  • Tourism and the transformation of everyday life
  • Travel, masculinity, and femininity
  • Travel as Rite de passage
  • The North as epiphany
  • Estrangement, fluidity, and femininity
  • Femininity and open space
  • Travelling internal and external worlds
  • A feminine aesthetics of travel
  • The dawning of the midnight sun
  • Making place, making self : choragraphy.