Frontiers of Femininity - A New Historical Geography of the Nineteenth-Century American West

Informationen zum Autor Karen M. Morin is professor of geography at Bucknell University. Her articles have appeared in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, among others. She is coeditor of Women, Religion, and Space: Global Perspectives on Gender and Faith, also published by Syracuse University Press. Klappentext A collection of essays that explores the self-expression of travel writers like Isabella Bird by giving geographic context to their work. It examines relationships among nineteenth-century American expansionism, discourses about gender, and writings of women who traveled and lived in the American West in the late nineteenth century.A collection of essays that explores the self-expression of travel writers like Isabella Bird by giving geographic context to their work. It examines relationships among nineteenth-century American expansionism, discourses about gender, and writings of women who traveled and lived in the American West in the late nineteenth century.

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• Authors: Karen Morin, Karen M Morin, Karen M. Morin
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2008
• EAN: 9780815631675
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-3167-5
• No. of pages: 278
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Space, Place, and Society (Har; Space, Place, and Society (Har; Space, Place and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories