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

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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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.
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