Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and ColonialismPsychology Press, 1993 - 232 pages This book provides a useful entry into the field of travel writing from a feminist perspective which combines Foucault with postcolonialist theory. The point of departure are the narratives produced by British women who, during the mid nineteenth to early twentieth century, traveled to colonized countries. Mills locates their narratives within larger structures of both material and symbolic power to stress the importance of the articulations of travel, gender and sexuality within travel culture: women paid attention to different things than men and had different expectations of themselves and of the `natives' while abroad. Much of this is familiar ground, but it is interesting to see how the author takes well-known female accounts such as Mary Kingsley's and reads them not as eccentric products but as part of a broader discourse about gender, colonialism, and travel experience. |
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... sexuality and madness ; in Clifford Geertz's words , ' a non - historical historian , an anti - humanist human scientist , a counter - structuralist structuralist ' ( cited in Dreyfus and Rabinow ( eds ) , 1982 : iii ) . At first sight ...
... sexuality and madness ; in Clifford Geertz's words , ' a non - historical historian , an anti - humanist human scientist , a counter - structuralist structuralist ' ( cited in Dreyfus and Rabinow ( eds ) , 1982 : iii ) . At first sight ...
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... Sexuality to a discussion of the hystericisation of women , but this is only a section alongside which he deals with other ' marginalised ' groups , such as children and homosexuals.11 As Sandra Bartky notes , Foucault is ' blind to ...
... Sexuality to a discussion of the hystericisation of women , but this is only a section alongside which he deals with other ' marginalised ' groups , such as children and homosexuals.11 As Sandra Bartky notes , Foucault is ' blind to ...
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... social meanings given to biological sexual difference ' ( Weedon , 1987 : 2 ) , and she states that ' to say that patriarchal relations are structural is to suggest that they exist in institutions and social practices 17 INTRODUCTION.
... social meanings given to biological sexual difference ' ( Weedon , 1987 : 2 ) , and she states that ' to say that patriarchal relations are structural is to suggest that they exist in institutions and social practices 17 INTRODUCTION.
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... sexual matters ; it would have been considered improper for a woman writer even to allude to sexual matters . This is a notable silence in the texts . A further element which is shared by the texts is a difficulty in the choice of ...
... sexual matters ; it would have been considered improper for a woman writer even to allude to sexual matters . This is a notable silence in the texts . A further element which is shared by the texts is a difficulty in the choice of ...
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Page 10 - I would like to show with precise examples that in analysing discourses themselves, one sees the loosening of the embrace, apparently so tight, of words and things, and the emergence of a group of rules proper to discursive practice. These rules define not the dumb existence of a reality, nor the canonical use of a vocabulary, but the ordering of objects.