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Gender, Science, and Authority in Women’s Travel Writing
Michelle Medeiros
其他書名
Literary Perspectives on the Discourse of Natural History
出版Rowman & Littlefield, 2019-04-15
主題Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication StudiesHistory / Latin America / General
ISBN14985797609781498579766
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=VlSQDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Gender, Science, and Authority in Women’s Travel Writing: Literary Perspectives on the Discourse of Natural History analyzes the interrelations among authority, gender and the scientific discipline of natural history in the works of transatlantic women travelers from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Michelle Medeiros sheds new light on our understanding of the literary perspectives of the discourse of natural history and how these viewpoints had a surprising impact in areas that went beyond scientific fields.

This book advances the study of travel writing and gender in new directions by bringing together Latin American, European, and American women travelers who actively engaged in natural history discussions in their writings. By demonstrating how these women were only able to participate in intellectual enterprises by embarking on transatlantic voyages, this book discloses how the work produced by these travelers challenged and reshaped dominant discourses, bringing a new point of view to nineteenth and twentieth-centuries studies in Latin American history, literature, cultural studies, and history of science. Moreover, this book analyzes to what extent the approaches employed by female travel writers who wanted to engage in the production of knowledge has evolved in that time period, and to what degree such changes could be considered positive and more productive.