Excursions in identity : travel and the intersection of place, gender, and status in Edo Japan /
"In the Edo period (1600-1868), status- and gender-based expectations largely defined a person's place and identity in society. The wayfarers of the time, however, discovered that travel provided the opportunity to escape from the confines of the everyday. Cultured travelers of the sevente...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawai'i Press,
2008.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Introduction: everything flows
- pt. 1. Re-creating spaces. Maps, movements, and the malleable spaces of Edo Japan
- At the intersection of travel and gender
- pt. 2. Re-creating identities. Women on the road: identities in motion
- Palimpsests: the open road and the blank page
- pt. 3. Purchasing re-creation. Print matters: popularizing past and present
- Icons of escapism
- Bodies, brothels, and baths: travel and physical re-creation
- Conclusion: dreaming of walking near Fuji.


