Alumni Books
Travelling in Different Skins
Travelling in Different Skins: Gender Identity in European Women’s Oriental Travelogues, 1850-1950 (OUP, 2012)
- Original analysis of an important corpus of women’s travelogues
- Comparative Francophone and Anglophone study
- Uses important recent texts from major theorists including Judith Butler, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Mary Louise Pratt as a conceptual underpinning
- Contributes to scholarship in a range of different fields, including post-colonial, gender and travel studies, feminist geography and cultural studies