Travelling in Different Skins
Gender Identity in European Women's Oriental Travelogues, 1850-1950
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 5 July 2012
- ISBN 9780199644162
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages286 pages
- Size 223x148x22 mm
- Weight 478 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 6 black-and-white illustrations 0
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Short description:
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.
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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 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.
a fascinating exploration of how some women in the past constructed their gender in ways that still echo today.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Travelling in Different Skins
Walk Like a Man: Vagabondage and Gender Construction
Performance in Motion: Gender Identity, Performativity and Travel Writing
The Inky Body: Writing Corporeality
Bearded Queens and Amazons: Cross-dressing, Disguise and Deception
Selling the Skirt: Women's Travel Writing and the Literary Market
Skirting the Issue: Intelligibility and Recognition
A Woman's Place: Spatial Dynamics of the Orient
Conclusion: Casting Skins
Appendix
Bibliography: Bound in Different Skins
