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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784373803321

Autore

Smith Sidonie

Titolo

Moving lives [[electronic resource] ] : twentieth-century women's travel writing / / Sidonie Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2001

ISBN

0-8166-8774-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 p.)

Disciplina

910/.82

Soggetti

Travelers' writings - History and criticism

Women travelers - History - 20th century

Travel writing - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-229) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

In Moving Lives Sidonie Smith explores how women's 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.