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3127121Women, travel and identityhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/women-travel-and-identity-9781526112460/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2303333/11b68012-9a2c-419c-b510-fca4a807faaa.jpg?v=63838379131740000016722323MXNManchester University PressInStock/Ebooks/<p>The years between 1870 and 1940 are often considered a golden age of travel: as larger and evermore sumptuous ships and trains were built, including the Orient Express, Blue Train, Lusitania and Normandie, journeying abroad became, and remains today, synonymous with chic, splendour and luxury. Utilising womens diaries and letters, art, advertising, fiction and etiquette guides, this book considers the journeys impact upon understandings of female identity, definitions of femininity, modernity, glamour, class, travel, tourism, leisure and sexual opportunity and threat during this period. It explores womens relationship with train and ship technology; cultural understandings of the journey; public expectations of women journeyers; how women journeyed in practice: their use of journey space, sociability with both Western and Other non-Western journeyers, experience of love, sex and danger during the journey; and how women fashioned a journeyer identity which fused their existing domestic identities with new journey identities such as the journey chronicler. The journey is revealed to be an experience of sociability as much as mobility, dominated by ideas of respectability and reputation, class, power, vision and observation and home as well as the foreign and new.</p>...3063186Women, travel and identity16722323https://www.gandhi.com.mx/women-travel-and-identity-9781526112460/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2303333/11b68012-9a2c-419c-b510-fca4a807faaa.jpg?v=638383791317400000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20169781526112460_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_<p>The years between 1870 and 1940 are often considered a golden age of travel: as larger and evermore sumptuous ships and trains were built, including the Orient Express, Blue Train, Lusitania and Normandie, journeying abroad became, and remains today, synonymous with chic, splendour and luxury. Utilising womens diaries and letters, art, advertising, fiction and etiquette guides, this book considers the journeys impact upon understandings of female identity, definitions of femininity, modernity, glamour, class, travel, tourism, leisure and sexual opportunity and threat during this period. It explores womens relationship with train and ship technology; cultural understandings of the journey; public expectations of women journeyers; how women journeyed in practice: their use of journey space, sociability with both Western and Other non-Western journeyers, experience of love, sex and danger during the journey; and how women fashioned a journeyer identity which fused their existing domestic identities with new journey identities such as the journey chronicler. The journey is revealed to be an experience of sociability as much as mobility, dominated by ideas of respectability and reputation, class, power, vision and observation and home as well as the foreign and new.</p>(*_*)9781526112460_<p>The years between 1870 and 1940 are often considered a golden age of travel: as larger and evermore sumptuous ships and trains were built, including the Orient Express, Blue Train, Lusitania and Normandie, journeying abroad became, and remains today, synonymous with chic, splendour and luxury. Utilising womens diaries and letters, art, advertising, fiction and etiquette guides, this book considers the journeys impact upon understandings of female identity, definitions of femininity, modernity, glamour, class, travel, tourism, leisure and sexual opportunity and threat during this period. It explores womens relationship with train and ship technology; cultural understandings of the journey; public expectations of women journeyers; how women journeyed in practice: their use of journey space, sociability with both Western and Other non-Western journeyers, experience of love, sex and danger during the journey; and how women fashioned a journeyer identity which fused their existing domestic identities with new journey identities such as the journey chronicler. The journey is revealed to be an experience of sociability as much as mobility, dominated by ideas of respectability and reputation, class, power, vision and observation and home as well as the foreign and new.</p>...9781526112460_Manchester University Presslibro_electonico_26924e69-e94b-337b-b6b8-d4f3ad6c10a1_9781526112460;9781526112460_9781526112460Cordelia BeattieInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/ingram52-epub-fe13efee-4d8e-4564-98ba-b4d861a155ef.epub2016-05-16T00:00:00+00:00Manchester University Press