A Woman's Trek from the Cape to Cairo
Author : Mary Hall
Publisher :
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 34,15 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Africa, East
ISBN :
Author : Mary Hall
Publisher :
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 34,15 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Africa, East
ISBN :
Author : Nupur Chaudhuri
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,53 MB
Release : 1992-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253207050
" Western Women and Imperialism] provides fascinating insights into interactions and attitudes between western and non-western women, mainly in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It is an important contribution to the field of women's studies and (primarily British) imperial history, in that many of the essays explore problems of cross-cultural interaction that have been heretofore ignored." --Nancy Fix Anderson "A challenging anthology in which a multiplicity of authors sheds new light on the waves of missionaries, 'memsahibs, ' nurses--and feminists." --Ms. "... a long-overdue engagement with colonial discourse and feminism.... excellent essays..." --The Year's Work in Critical Cultural Theory
Author : Mary Hall
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,56 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Africa
ISBN :
Author : M. Spongberg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 729 pages
File Size : 26,2 MB
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1349724688
This A-Z reference work provides the first comprehensive reference guide to the wide range of historical writing with which women have been involved, particularly since the Renaissance. The Companion covers biographical writing, travelogue and historical fictions, broadening the concept of history to include the forms of writing with which women have historically engaged. The focus is on women writing in English internationally, but historical and historiographical traditions from beyond the English-speaking world are also examined. Brief biographies of individual writers are included.
Author : Philip Holden
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,95 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Colonies in literature
ISBN : 9781452905228
Author : Joyce Kelley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 635 pages
File Size : 48,46 MB
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1134802927
Positioned at a crossroads between feminist geographies and modernist studies, Excursions into Modernism considers transnational modernist fiction in tandem with more rarely explored travel narratives by women of the period who felt increasingly free to journey abroad and redefine themselves through travel. In an era when Western artists, writers, and musicians sought 'primitive' ideas for artistic renewal, Joyce E. Kelley locates a key similarity between fiction and travel writing in the way women authors use foreign experiences to inspire innovations with written expression and self-articulation. She focuses on the pairing of outward journeys with more inward, introspective ones made possible through reconceptualizing and mobilizing elements of women’s traditional corporeal and domestic geographies: the skin, the ill body, the womb, and the piano. In texts ranging from Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark to Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out and from Evelyn Scott’s Escapade to Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage, Kelley explores how interactions between geographic movement, identity formation, and imaginative excursions produce modernist experimentation. Drawing on fascinating supplementary and archival materials such as letters, diaries, newspaper articles, photographs, and unpublished drafts, Kelley’s book cuts across national and geographic borders to offer rich and often revisionary interpretations of both canonical and lesser-known works.
Author : Mick Conefrey
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 13,33 MB
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0230106420
You'll find the answers to these questions and more in Mick Conefrey's charming new book (a hint: none of them had a beard). --
Author : Sarah Lonsdale
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 34,41 MB
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1526137127
What did it mean to be a ‘rebel woman’ in the interwar years? Taking the form of a multiple biography, this book traces the struggles, passions and achievements of a set of ‘fearlessly determined’ women who stopped at nothing to make their mark in the traditionally masculine environments of mountaineering, politics, engineering and journalism. From the motorist Claudia Parsons to the ‘star’ reporter Margaret Lane, the mountaineer Dorothy Pilley and the journalist Shiela Grant Duff, the women charted in this book challenged the status quo in all walks of life, alongside writing vivid, eye-witness accounts of their adventures. Recovering their voices across a range of texts including novels, poems, journalism and diaries, Rebel women between the wars reveals their inch by inch gains won through courageous and sometimes controversial and dangerous actions.
Author : Susie Steinbach
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 32,2 MB
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1780226667
A rich and fresh survey of women's lives between George III and the First World War Using diaries, letters, memoirs as well as social and statistical research, this book looks at life-expectancy, sex, marriage and childbirth, and work inside and outside the home, for all classes of women. It charts the poverty and struggles of the working class as well as the leadership roles of middle-class and elite women. It considers the influence of religion, education, and politics, especially the advent of organised feminism and the suffragette movement. It looks, too, at the huge role played by women in the British Empire: how imperialism shaped English women's lives and how women also moulded the Empire.
Author : Cindy Lane
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 31,26 MB
Release : 2015-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1443875791
This book examines the perceptions of European travelling writers about southern Western Australia between 1850 and 1914. Theirs was a narrow vision of space and people in the region, shaped by their individual personalities, their position in society, and the prevailing discourses and ideologies of the age. Christian, Enlightenment, and Romantic philosophies had a major influence on their responses to the land – its cultivation and conservation, and its aesthetic qualities – and on their views of both indigenous and settler colonial society – their class and assumptions of race and ethnicity. The travelling men and women perpetuated an idealised view of a colonised landscape, and a “pioneer” community that eliminated class struggle and inequality, even though an analysis of their observations suggests otherwise. Nevertheless, although limited, their narratives are invaluable as a reflection of opinions, attitudes and knowledge prevalent during an age of imperialism. Their perspectives reveal unique viewpoints that differ from those of immigrants who wrote about their hopes and fears in making a new life for themselves. These travellers were economically secure, literate and educated; foundations which provide an insight into the way power and privilege, implicit in their writings, governed the way they imagined Western Australia in the colonial and immediate post-federation period. The tinted lenses through which European travelling writers narrowly observed space and people, presented a mythical, imagined sense of southern Western Australia.