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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... theories , also risk adding to the body of knowledge which suggests that theory is in fact male.13 So acute is this problem of using male theoretical work that some Anglo - American feminists like Elaine Showalter and Dale Spender have ...
... theories , also risk adding to the body of knowledge which suggests that theory is in fact male.13 So acute is this problem of using male theoretical work that some Anglo - American feminists like Elaine Showalter and Dale Spender have ...
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... theories as constituting 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 ...
... theories as constituting 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 ...
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... theories , for he says : ' If power was never anything but repressive , if it never did anything but say no , do you really believe that we should manage to obey it ? ' ( Foucault , 1979 : 36 ) . Foucault believes we should give up the ...
... theories , for he says : ' If power was never anything but repressive , if it never did anything but say no , do you really believe that we should manage to obey it ? ' ( Foucault , 1979 : 36 ) . Foucault believes we should give up the ...
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... theory ' from a feminist point of view was that the categories hitherto deployed by cultural analysts as ' givens ' class , gender , race , generation and so on - were constantly being pro- duced anew within different and competing ...
... theory ' from a feminist point of view was that the categories hitherto deployed by cultural analysts as ' givens ' class , gender , race , generation and so on - were constantly being pro- duced anew within different and competing ...
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... theory which can explain how and why people oppress each other , a theory of subjectivity , of unconscious thoughts and emotions , which can account for the relationship between the individual and the social . ( Weedon , 1987 : 3 ) Thus ...
... theory which can explain how and why people oppress each other , a theory of subjectivity , of unconscious thoughts and emotions , which can account for the relationship between the individual and the social . ( Weedon , 1987 : 3 ) Thus ...
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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.