Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism

by Sara Mills

Book Overview

Discourses of Difference unravels the complexities of writings by British women travellers of the high colonial' period. Sara Mills examines the relation of women travellers to colonialism, positioned as they were at the site of conflicting discourses: femininity, feminism, and patriarchal imperialism. Using feminist discourse theory, Sara Mills analyses the writings of three women travellers - Alexandra David-Neel, Mary Kingsley and Nina Mazuchelli...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415096642
• ISBN13: 9780415096645
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"