Frontiers of Femininity: A New Historical Geography of the Nineteenth-Century American West

by Karen M. Morin

British explorer and professional travel writer Isabella Bird is, to the modern eye, a study in contradictions. One of the premier mountaineers and world explorers of her generation, she was, in 1892, the first woman elected to London's Royal Geographic Society. And yet Bird's books on her travels are filled with depictions of herself and other women that reinforce the "properly feminine" domestic and behavioral codes of her day.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815631677
• ISBN13: 9780815631675
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"