TY - BOOK AU - Bird,D�unlaith TI - Travelling in different skins: gender identity in European women's oriental travelogues, 1850-1950 T2 - Oxford modern languages and literature monographs SN - 9780199949984 (ebook) : AV - PN56.T7 U1 - 809.93325 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Women travelers KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Sources KW - 20th century KW - Travelers' writings, European KW - History and criticism KW - Psychology KW - Europeans KW - Orient KW - Gender identity KW - Sexual behavior KW - Description and travel N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - 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 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199644162.001.0001 ER -