Moving Lives: Twentieth-Century Women's Travel Writings

by Sidonie Smith

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816628750
• ISBN13: 9780816628759
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"