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Bird, D�unlaith, 1982-

Travelling in different skins gender identity in European women's oriental travelogues, 1850-1950 / [electronic resource] : D�unlaith Bird. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012. - 1 online resource : ill. - Oxford modern languages and literature monographs . - Oxford modern languages and literature monographs. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

D�unlaith 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.

ISBN: 9780199949984 (ebook) : No price

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Women travelers--History--Sources.--19th century
Women travelers--History--Sources.--20th century
Travelers' writings, European--History and criticism.
Women travelers--Psychology--History--Sources.
Europeans--Psychology--History--Sources.--Orient
Gender identity--History--Sources.--19th century
Gender identity--History--Sources.--20th century
Women travelers--Sexual behavior--Sources.--Orient

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Orient--Description and travel.

LC Class. No.: PN56.T7

Dewey Class. No.: 809.93325