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Feminism and the Politics of Travel after the Enlightenment

Feminism and the Politics of Travel after the Enlightenment

Schlick, Yaël

Paperback

Series: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850

Literary CriticismGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1611485681
ISBN13: 9781611485684
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: Mar 12 2014
Pages: 234
Weight: 0.80
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
Taking the Enlightenment and the feminist tradition to which it gave rise as its historical and philosophical coordinates, Feminism and the Politics of Travel After the Enlightenment explores travel as a technology of gender. It also investigates the way travel's utopian dimension and feminism's utopian ideals have intermittently fed off each other in productive ways. With broad historical and theoretical understanding, Yaël Schlick analyzes the intersections of travel and feminism in writings published during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a period of intense feminist vindication during which women's very presence in the public sphere, their access to education, and their political participation were contentious issues. Schlick examines the gendering of travel and its political implications in Rousseau's Emile, and in works by Mary Wollstonecraft, Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis, Frances Burney, Germaine de Staël, Suzanne Voilquin, Flora Tristan, Gustave Flaubert, and George Sand, arguing that travel is instrumental in furthering diverse feminist agendas. The epilogue alerts us to the continuation of the utopian strain of the voyage and its link to feminism in modern and contemporary travelogues by writers like Mary Kingsley, Robyn Davidson and Sara Wheeler.

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