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

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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 p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bird, Dúnlaith, 1982-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Oxford modern languages and literature monographs.
Subjects:
English literature > Asian influences.
Travelers' writings, English > Orient > History and criticism.
Gender identity in literature.
English prose literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
English prose literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
English prose literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Women travelers > Orient > History.
Orient > Description and travel > Historiography.
Orienten.
English prose literature.
English prose literature > Women authors.
Travel > Historiography.
Travelers' writings, English.
Women and literature.
Women travelers.
Asia > Orient.
Great Britain.
Englisch.
Französisch.
Frauenbild.
Frauenliteratur.
Geschlechterrolle.
Reiseliteratur.
Weibliche Reisende.
Orient.
Sozialer Wandel.
Europa.
Kvinnliga författare > historia.
Kvinnliga resenärer > historia.
Europeiska reseskildringar > historia.
Könsidentitet > historia.
1800 - 1999
1800-talet
1900-talet
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
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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.
Physical Description:xiv, 271 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-266) and index.
ISBN:9780199644162
0199644160