Women and the journey : the female travel experience
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書誌事項
Women and the journey : the female travel experience
Washington State University Press, c1993
- : pbk
注記
Includes bibliographical references
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This ground-breaking book was many years in the making by some of the country's leading women scholars.Until the present century, few people thought of travel as a female pursuit. Men traveled; women stayed at home. But women have always journeyed, for many reasons, as this important book demonstrates.
"There is almost nothing on women and travel," notes Susan Armitage, editor of the acclaimed The Women's West and a contributor to Women and the Journey. "It has been taken for granted that men are adventurers and explorers, but what this does is wipe out the stories of women travelers. As we looked at how women's senses of their journeys differed from those of men, we felt like explorers ourselves."
The eleven essays in Women and the Journey, as well as the original artwork by Jo Hockenhull, approach the theme of women and travel from a variety of perspectives, including literature, history, foreign languages, fine arts, and women's studies. Over several years the contributors worked on this project as a team, sharing research, reading one another's work, uniting in the process of creating a unique book together. Like quilt making, "that most female of activities," note McLeod and Frederick in their prologue, "each of us had some say in how the final product was put together."
Women and the Journey is destined to become a women's studies classic. Contributors include Susan Armitage, Joan Burbick, Susanna Finnell, Bonnie Frederick, Diane Gillespie, Jo Hockenhull, Virginia Hyde, Birgitta Ingemanson, Susan McLeod, Sheila Ruzycki O'Brien, Louise Schleiner, Marina Tolmacheva, and Annette White-Parks.
目次
List of Illustrations Foreword by Catharine R. Stimpson
Prologue by Susan H. McLeod and Bonnie Frederick
Introduction by Bonnie Frederick and Virginia Hyde
Section I: Adventure, Class, and Clothing
I. Under Cover: The Paradox of Victorian Women's Travel Costume by Birgitta Maria Ingemanson
II. Another Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Susan Armitage
III. The Ride of Godiva: Defiant Journeys in 20th-Century English Women's Plays by Diane F. Gillespie
Section II: Gender, Race, and Class
IV. Under the Sign of Gender: Margaret Fuller's Summer on the Lakes by Joan Burbick
V. Fatal Journeys, Fatal Legends: The Journey of the Captive Woman in Argentina and Uruguay by Bonnie Frederick
VI. Journey to the Golden Mountain: Chinese Immigrant Women by Annette White-Parks
VII. Ibn Battuta on Women's Travel in the Dar al-Islam by Marina A. Tolmacheva
Section III: Women and Traditions of Narrative
VIII. Gendered Journeys in The Faerie Queen and Pilgrim's Progress by Louise Schleiner
IX. To "Undiscovered Land": D. H. Lawrence's Horsewomen and Other Questers by Virginia Hyde
X. Unwriting the Quest: Margaret Atwood's Fiction and The Handmaid's Tale by Susanna Finnell
XI. Housekeeping in the Western Tradition: Remodeling Tales of Western Travelers by Sheila Ruzycki O'Brien
Contributors
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