Travelling in different skins : gender identity in European women's Oriental travelogues, 1850-1950
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書誌事項
Travelling in different skins : gender identity in European women's Oriental travelogues, 1850-1950
(Oxford modern languages and literature monographs)
Oxford University Press, 2012
1st ed
大学図書館所蔵 全5件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. [254]-266) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Dunlaith 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 travellers including Olympe Audouard, Isabella Bird, Isabelle Eberhardt, and Freya Stark,vagabondage is a means of pushing out the physical, geographical, and textual parameters by which 'women' are defined.
Travelling in Different Skins explores the negotiations of European women travel writers from 1850-1950 within the traditionally male-oriented discourses of colonialism and Orientalism. Moving from historical overview to close textual reading, it traces a complex web of tacit collusion and gleeful defiance. These women improvise access to the highly gendered 'imaginative geography' of the Orient. Tactics including cross-dressing, commerciality, and the effacement of their male
companions are used to carve out a space for their unconventional and often sexually-hybrid constructions.
Using a composite theoretical basis of the later critical work of Judith Butler and Edward Said, this comparative study of British and French colonial empires and gender norms draws out the nuances in these travellers' constructions of gender identity. Women travel writers are shown to play an important role in the legacy of sexual experimentation and self-creation in the Orient, traditionally associated with male writers including Gide and Pierre Loti, and now ripe for critical re-evaluation.
This study demonstrates how these women use lived experiences of restriction and negotiation to elaborate advanced theories of motion and gender construction, presaging the concerns of twenty-first century feminism and post-colonialism.
目次
- 1. Introduction: Travelling in Different Skins
- 2. Walk Like a Man: Vagabondage and Gender Construction
- 3. Performance in Motion: Gender Identity, Performativity and Travel Writing
- 4. The Inky Body: Writing Corporeality
- 5. Bearded Queens and Amazons: Cross-dressing, Disguise and Deception
- 6. Selling the Skirt: Women's Travel Writing and the Literary Market
- 7. Skirting the Issue: Intelligibility and Recognition
- 8. A Woman's Place: Spatial Dynamics of the Orient
- Conclusion: Casting Skins
- Appendix
- Bibliography: Bound in Different Skins
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