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Gender & landscape : renegotiating the moral landscape / / [edited by] Lorraine Dowler, Josephine Carubia & Bonj Szczygiel
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Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2005 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (305 p.) |
Disciplina: | 304.2 |
Soggetto topico: | Human geography - Philosophy |
Landscape assessment - Philosophy | |
Sex role | |
Spatial behavior | |
Geographical perception | |
Communication and sex | |
Social interaction | |
Feminist theory | |
Altri autori: |
DowlerLorraine
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Note generali: | "This volume is the product of a conference--Gendered landscapes: an interdisciplinary exploration of past place and space, which was hosted in 1999 by the Center for Studies in Landscape History, the Women's Study Program, and the Department of Geography at Pennsylvania State University"--p. 2. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: gender and landscape: renegotiating morality and space; PART I A man's home is his empire; 1 Home alone? Masculinity, discipline and erasure in mid-nineteenth-century Ceylon; 2 The labourer's welcome: border crossings in the English country garden; 3 Transplantation of the Picturesque: Emma Hamilton, English landscape, and redeeming the Picturesque; PART II Mobile homes; 4 At home aboard: the American railroad and the changing ideal of public domesticity |
5 ""The salt water washes away all impropriety"": mass culture and the middle-class body on the beach in turn-of-the-century Atlantic City6 How to travel with a male; 7 A wilderness for men: the Adirondacks in the photographs of Seneca Ray Stoddard; PART III Memories of home; 8 Mapping the Amazon's salon: symbolic landscapes and topographies of identity in Natalie Clifford Barney's literary salon; 9 Pincushions, dormitory kitchens, and seed gardens: gender identity and spiritual place at the West Union Shaker village; 10 Cleaning house: or one nation, indivisible | |
11 ""Virgin land,"" the settler-invader subject, and cultural nationalism: gendered landscape in the cultural construction of Canadian national identityPART IV Writing home; 12 The manly map: the English construction of gender in early modern cartography; 13 The importance of being provincial: nineteenth-century Russian women writers and the country; 14 ""My garden, my sister, my bride"": the garden of ""The Song of Songs""; 15 Gendering ghetto and gallery in the graffiti art movement, 1977-1986; Index | |
Sommario/riassunto: | ^Gender and Landscape is a feminist inquiry into the landscape. This volume provides a bridge between feminist discussions of space and place and landscape interpretations. |
Altri titoli varianti: | Gender and landscape |
Titolo autorizzato: | Gender & landscape ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-134-30082-4 |
1-134-30083-2 | |
1-280-17753-5 | |
0-203-44919-3 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910827058103321 |
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