Travel, Gender, and Imperialism

Mary Kingsley and West Africa
1. Auflage 1994
ISBN: 978-0-89862-546-2
Verlag: Guilford Publications

Buch, Englisch, 190 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 308 g

Reihe: Mappings: Society/Theory/Space

Studies of women travel writers have ranged from anecdotal and celebratory accounts to more critical essays on imperialism or the textualization of difference. This book does more. Drawing from the life and travels of Mary Kingsley, a nineteenth century travel writer and critic of the Crown Colony system, Alison Blunt cogently examines the relationships among travel, gender, and imperialism. Instead of studying either travel generally or women travel writers in the colonial period specifically, Blunt examines both to show how the spatiality and gendering of travel are inseparable. Underlying her examination are debates about women as a focus of historical research, Western women and imperialism, and the place of women in a historiography of geography.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blunt, Alison

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Tourismus & Reise Reise & Urlaub: Führer, Landkarten, Pläne
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

INTRODUCTION "Only a Woman …" CHAPTER 1 Planning a Route: Travel, Travel Writing, and Imperial Representation INTERLUDE (Re)presenting Mary Kingsley CHAPTER2 Departure: Travel Writing and Gendered Subjectivity CHAPTER3 Journey: Space, Place, and Imperial Subjectivity CHAPTER 4 Return: Reconstituting Home POSTLUDE Institutional Responses to Women Travel Writers CONCLUSION

Über Autor(innen)

Alison Blunt, M.A., is a Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Southampton in England.