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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... theorists and feminists.5 For this purpose I have blended to- gether the work of Michel Foucault and feminist theory ... theorist or group of theor- ists . It is important to ask what explanatory advantages the use of Michel ...
... theorists and feminists.5 For this purpose I have blended to- gether the work of Michel Foucault and feminist theory ... theorist or group of theor- ists . It is important to ask what explanatory advantages the use of Michel ...
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... theorists within the study of colonial discourse , but usually as an addition to Marxist theor- ising : for example , Said uses his work in conjunction with Gramsci ( Said , 1978a ) and Peter Hulme uses his work in conjunction with ...
... theorists within the study of colonial discourse , but usually as an addition to Marxist theor- ising : for example , Said uses his work in conjunction with Gramsci ( Said , 1978a ) and Peter Hulme uses his work in conjunction with ...
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... theorist who is aware of the problems of claiming scientificity and truth for her / his own statements . A number of Marxist theorists , most notably Louis Althusser , have proposed systems of knowledge whereby there is a distinction ...
... theorist who is aware of the problems of claiming scientificity and truth for her / his own statements . A number of Marxist theorists , most notably Louis Althusser , have proposed systems of knowledge whereby there is a distinction ...
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... theorists who are inspiring and yet disappointing for feminists . Neither Foucault nor Said mention women writers in any detail in their work . Foucault devotes a part of History of Sexuality to a discussion of the hystericisation of ...
... theorists who are inspiring and yet disappointing for feminists . Neither Foucault nor Said mention women writers in any detail in their work . Foucault devotes a part of History of Sexuality to a discussion of the hystericisation of ...
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... theorists then we run the risk of turning feminist theory into an untheorised subject ( Moi , 1985 ) . She considers that it is not possible only to draw on the work of women theorists , or , for that matter , only men theorists . In ...
... theorists then we run the risk of turning feminist theory into an untheorised subject ( Moi , 1985 ) . She considers that it is not possible only to draw on the work of women theorists , or , for that matter , only men theorists . In ...
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Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism Sara Mills Aucun aperçu disponible - 1991 |
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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.