Research Catalog

Title

Women and the journey : the female travel experience / edited by Bonnie Frederick & Susan H. McLeod ; illustrated by Jo Hockenhull ; with a foreword by Catharine R. Stimpson.

Publication

Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University Press, ©1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Frederick, Bonnie
• McLeod, Susan H.

Description

xxxiii, 238 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

Until the present century, few people thought of travel as a female pursuit: men traveled; women stayed at home. But women have always journeyed, for many reasons, as this groundbreaking book demonstrates. The contributors to Women and the Journey focus on the female travel experience from a variety of perspectives, taking into account how such issues as race, class, and traditions of narrative change when the traveler is a woman rather than a man. The authors, all from Washington State University and the University of Idaho, come from many disciplinary backgrounds - literature, history, foreign languages, fine arts, women's studies. Over several years they worked on this project as a team, sharing research, reading one another's work, uniting in the process of creating the book together.

Subject

• Women travelers
• travelers (people by activity)
• Women travelers
• Frau
• Reiseliteratur
• Geschichte
• Weibliche Reisende
• Aufsatzsammlung

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

I. Adventure, class, and clothing. Under cover: the paradox of Victorian women's travel costume / Birgitta Maria Ingemanson -- Another lady's life in the Rocky Mountains / Susan Armitage -- The ride of Godiva: Defiant journeys in 20th century English women's plays / Diane F. Gillespie. II. Gender, Race, and Class. Under the sign of gender: Margaret Fuller's Summer on the lakes / Joan Burbick -- Fatal journeys, fatal legends: the journey of the captive woman in Argentina and Uruguay / Bonnie Frederick -- Journey to the Golden Mountain: Chinese immigrant women / Annette White-Parks -- Ibn Battuta on women's travel in the Dar al-Islam / Marina A. Tomacheva. III. Women and traditions of narrative. Gendered journeys in The faerie queen and Pilgrim's progress / Louise Schleiner -- To "Undiscovered Land": D.H. Lawrence's Horsewomen and other questers / Virginia Hyde -- Unwriting the quest: Margaret Atwood's fiction and The handmaid's tale / Susanna Finnell -- Housekeeping in the Western tradition: remodeling tales of Western travelers / Sheila Ruzycki O'Brien.

ISBN

• 0874221005
• 9780874221008

LCCN

93029498

OCLC

• ocm28631668
• 28631668
• SCSB-2019531

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library