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Women's Studies/Literary Theory An engaging look at women writing on the go-and what they tell us about female identity. As technological advances increased the ease, speed, and reach of transportation, more and more women took to the air, to the road and the rail, and headed for points elsewhere. As they mastered new modes of mobility and then narrated their journeys, these women travelers left cultural ideas of femininity as sedentary, subordinate, and constrained in the dust. 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. Alexandra David-Neel journeying on foot across the Himalayas; Robyn Davidson on her camel in the outback of Australia; Amelia Earhart, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and Beryl Markham climbing into the cockpit of their airplanes; Mary Morris riding a train from Beijing to Berlin; Irma Kurtz taking a Greyhound into the bellies of American cities and towns-of these and other women, Smith asks: What do they make of their travels? How do they enact the dynamics of and contradictions in the drift

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Author

Sidonie Smith, Esther C. M. Yau

Publisher

University of Minnesota Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780816687749

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Travel, History, Adventure