Moving lives [[electronic resource] ] : twentieth-century women's travel writing / / Sidonie Smith
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| Autore: |
Smith Sidonie
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| Titolo: |
Moving lives [[electronic resource] ] : twentieth-century women's travel writing / / Sidonie Smith
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2001 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (283 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 910/.82 |
| Soggetto topico: | Travelers' writings - History and criticism |
| Women travelers - History - 20th century | |
| Travel writing - History - 20th century | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Moving lives |
| ISBN: | 0-8166-8774-9 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910457377803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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