Moving Lives : Twentieth-Century Women's Travel Writings /

In Moving Lives Sidonie Smith explores how womens travel and travel writing in the twentieth century were shaped by particular modes of mobility, asking how the form of travel affected the kind of narrative written.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Sidonie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2001.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Reizen.
Vrouwen.
Reisbeschrijvingen.
Women travelers.
Travelers' writings.
Travel writing.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Adventure.
TRAVEL > Road Travel.
TRAVEL > Reference.
TRAVEL > Parks & Campgrounds.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Ecotourism.
TRAVEL > Budget.
TRAVEL > Hikes & Walks.
TRAVEL > Museums, Tours, Points of Interest.
Voyage > Art d'ecrire > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Voyageuses > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Écrits de voyageurs > Histoire et critique.
Travel writing > History > 20th century.
Women travelers > History > 20th century.
Travelers' writings > History and criticism.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction: Vehicular Gender; 1. The Logic of Travel and Technologies of Motion; 2. On Foot: Gender at Ground Level; 3. In the Air: Aerial Gender and the Familiarity of Flight; 4. By Rail: Trains, Tracks, and the Derailments of Identity; 5. On the Road: (Auto)Mobility and Gendered Detours; Coda: Electronic Transport in Cyberspace; Notes; Works Cited; Index.

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