Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and ColonialismRoutledge, 2 sept. 2003 - 240 pages Discourses of Difference unravels the complexities of writings by British women travellers of the `high colonial' period. Sara Mills examines the relation of women travellers to colonialism, positioned as they were at the site of conflicting discourses: femininity, feminism, and patriarchal imperialism. Using feminist discourse theory, Sara Mills analyses the writings of three women travellers - Alexandra David-Neel, Mary Kingsley and Nina Mazuchelli. Her examination of agency, identity, and the contemporary social environment, is an important and inspiring step forward in post-colonial cultural and literary theory. |
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... FEMINISM Since feminism is not a unitary theoretical position , it is essential to specify which elements of feminist thought I am drawing on , and how feminist the use of the work of Michel Foucault can be . Feminist literary theory ...
... FEMINISM Since feminism is not a unitary theoretical position , it is essential to specify which elements of feminist thought I am drawing on , and how feminist the use of the work of Michel Foucault can be . Feminist literary theory ...
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... feminists use their work as a theoretical base ? This book is concerned with the way that feminists can use and transform these models . Being a feminist makes one suspicious of adopting a male theoretical ' guru ' . However , in search ...
... feminists use their work as a theoretical base ? This book is concerned with the way that feminists can use and transform these models . Being a feminist makes one suspicious of adopting a male theoretical ' guru ' . However , in search ...
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... feminists like a form of infatu- ation , as Meaghan Morris has put it , like ' being screwed ' ( Morris , in ... feminism appears as a parasitic discourse with no new hypotheses of its own , but simply as a feminist dimension to ...
... feminists like a form of infatu- ation , as Meaghan Morris has put it , like ' being screwed ' ( Morris , in ... feminism appears as a parasitic discourse with no new hypotheses of its own , but simply as a feminist dimension to ...
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... feminist theory , much as male appro- priations are considered to be theories themselves.14 Irene Diamond and Lee Quinby consider that the con- vergence of Foucault's work and feminism can be productive : Both identify the body as the ...
... feminist theory , much as male appro- priations are considered to be theories themselves.14 Irene Diamond and Lee Quinby consider that the con- vergence of Foucault's work and feminism can be productive : Both identify the body as the ...
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... Spivak and Homi Bhabha . There is potential for this work to be used by feminists who are trying to resist views of women and women's writing which emanate from a patriarchal system of thought . As Frigga Haug suggests , a 16 INTRODUCTION.
... Spivak and Homi Bhabha . There is potential for this work to be used by feminists who are trying to resist views of women and women's writing which emanate from a patriarchal system of thought . As Frigga Haug suggests , a 16 INTRODUCTION.
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