Travelling in different skins [electronic resource] : gender identity in European women's oriental travelogues, 1850-1950 / D�unlaith Bird.
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TextSeries: Oxford modern languages and literature monographsPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource : illISBN: - 9780199949984 (ebook) :
- Women travelers -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
- Women travelers -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
- Travelers' writings, European -- History and criticism
- Women travelers -- Psychology -- History -- Sources
- Europeans -- Orient -- Psychology -- History -- Sources
- Gender identity -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
- Gender identity -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
- Women travelers -- Sexual behavior -- Orient -- Sources
- Orient -- Description and travel
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- PN56.T7
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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