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Maps of difference : Canada, women, and travel / Wendy Roy.

Title: Maps of difference : Canada, women, and travel / Wendy Roy.
Author: Roy, Wendy, 1957-
Publication: Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2005.

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Description

xiv, 287 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"In her study of women's travel writing in Canda, Wendy Roy questions the notion of travel narratives as uncomplicated, objective accounts. She examines the accounts of Anna Jameson in Upper Canada (1838), Mina Benson Hubbard in Labrador (1908), and Margaret Laurence in Somalia (1963). Given their disparate geographical and historical contexts, Jameson, Hubbard, and Laurence drew very different maps of the political, cultural, and physical features of the areas they visited and of their own social and cultural positions. Maps of Difference reveals, however, that all three woman shared an anti-racist philosophy and an acute awareness of women's position in their own societies and in the societies to which they travelled."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

Genre/Form

Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-265) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Maps of Difference -- "Beyond the bounds of civilised humanity" Anna Jameson's Ethnographic Project -- "Where the women didn't do what they were told" Mina Hubbard's Mapping of Physical Space -- "I was against it" Margaret Laurence and British Imperialism in Somalia -- Conclusion: Mapping "Firsts".

ISBN

0773528660
9780773528666

LCCN

^^2007275123

OCLC

57165943
SCSB-11912286

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library