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Travelling in different skins gender identity in European women's oriental travelogues, 1850-1950 /

Dúnlaith Bird argues that vagabondage - a physical and textual elaboration of gender identity in motion - emerges as a totemic concept in European women's travel writing from 1850. For Olympe Audouard, Isabella Bird, Isabelle Eberhardt, and Freya Stark vagabondage is a means of extending the pa...

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Main Author: Bird, Dúnlaith, 1982-
Other Authors: Oxford Scholarship Online.
Format: Electronic
Language: English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Physical Description: 1 online resource : illustrations.
Series: Oxford modern languages and literature monographs.
Subjects:
Women travelers -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
Women travelers -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
Travelers' writings, European -- History and criticism.
Women travelers -- Psychology -- History -- Sources.
Europeans -- Orient -- Psychology -- History -- Sources.
Gender identity -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
Gender identity -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
Women travelers -- Sexual behavior -- Orient -- Sources.
Orient -- Description and travel.

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