Gender, Geography and Empire: Victorian Women Travellers in Africa

ISBN-13: 9781138725645 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 250 str.

Cheryl McEwan

Opis

First published 2000, this text is intended to draw together two important developments in contemporary geography: firstly, the recognition of the need to write critical histories of geographical thought and, particularly, the relationship between modern geography and European imperialism.

Spis treści

1. Introduction.  2. Travel, Text and Empowerment.  3. Paradise or Pandemonium?  4. White Women and 'Race'.  5. Slavery, Witchcraft and Cannibalism.  6. Colonized Counterparts.  7. Retrieving Subaltern Histories?  8. Conclusions.

O autorze

Cheryl McEwan