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Gender, Science, and Authority in Women’s Travel Writing

Name: Gender, Science, and Authority in Women’s Travel Writing
ISBN: 9781978752962

Literary Perspectives on the Discourse of Natural History

Michelle Medeiros,

223 pages
English
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Gender, Science, and Authority in Women’s Travel Writing

Literary Perspectives on the Discourse of Natural History

Michelle Medeiros,

About this book

Gender, Science, and Authority in Women's Travel Writing: Literary Perspectives on the Discourse of Natural History analyzes the interrelations among authority, gender and the scientific discipline of natural history in the works of transatlantic women travelers from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Michelle Medeiros sheds new light on our understanding of the literary perspectives of the discourse of natural history and how these viewpoints had a surprising impact in areas that went beyond scientific fields.

This book advances the study of travel writing and gender in new directions by bringing together Latin American, European, and American women travelers who actively engaged in natural history discussions in their writings. By demonstrating how these women were only able to participate in intellectual enterprises by embarking on transatlantic voyages, this book discloses how the work produced by these travelers challenged and reshaped dominant discourses, bringing a new point of view to nineteenth and twentieth-centuries studies in Latin American history, literature, cultural studies, and history of science. Moreover, this book analyzes to what extent the approaches employed by female travel writers who wanted to engage in the production of knowledge has evolved in that time period, and to what degree such changes could be considered positive and more productive.

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