Yaël Schlick

Feminism and the Politics of Travel after the Enlightenment (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Taking the Enlightenment and the feminist tradition to which it gave rise as its historical and philosophical coordinates, Feminism and the Politics of Travel After the Enlightenment explores travel as a "technology of gender." It also investigates the way travel's utopian dimension and feminism's utopian ideals have intermittently fed off each other in productive ways. With broad historical and theoretical understanding, Yaël Schlick analyzes the intersections of travel and feminism in writings published during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a period of intense feminist vindication during which women's very presence in the public sphere, their access to education, and their political participation were contentious issues. Schlick examines the gendering of travel and its political implications in Rousseau's Emile, and in works by Mary Wollstonecraft, Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis, Frances Burney, Germaine de Staël, Suzanne Voilquin, Flora Tristan, Gustave Flaubert, and George Sand, arguing that travel is instrumental in furthering diverse feminist agendas. The epilogue alerts us to the continuation of the utopian strain of the voyage and its link to feminism in modern and contemporary travelogues by writers like Mary Kingsley, Robyn Davidson and Sara Wheeler.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781611484298
• Artikelnr.: 38332866

Autorenporträt

By Yaël Schlick

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction: Travel, Knowledge, Utopia Part I: Travel and
Domesticity Chapter 1: The Sex of Travel: Sexual Contract and Enlightenment
Travel in Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Mary Wollstonecraft Chapter 2: Travel
and Talent: The Culture of Domesticity in Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis,
Germaine de Staël and Frances Burney Part II: Travel and New Communities
Chapter 3: Travelling Theories and Political Formation: The Feminist
Peregrinations of Flora Tristan Chapter 4: Travel as Praxis: Suzanne
Voilquin and the Saint-Simonian 'Call to the Woman' Part III: Travel and
History Chapter 5: Spatial Literacy and the Female Traveller: The Politics
of Map-Reading in Gustave Flaubert and George Sand Epilogue: Moving Forward
Bibliography About the Author