Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and ColonialismPsychology Press, 1993 - 232 páginas This book provides a useful entry into the field of travel writing from a feminist perspective which combines Foucault with postcolonialist theory. The point of departure are the narratives produced by British women who, during the mid nineteenth to early twentieth century, traveled to colonized countries. Mills locates their narratives within larger structures of both material and symbolic power to stress the importance of the articulations of travel, gender and sexuality within travel culture: women paid attention to different things than men and had different expectations of themselves and of the `natives' while abroad. Much of this is familiar ground, but it is interesting to see how the author takes well-known female accounts such as Mary Kingsley's and reads them not as eccentric products but as part of a broader discourse about gender, colonialism, and travel experience. |
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... relation to something which must function as the infrastructure or economic or material determinant for it . ( Foucault , in Morris and Patton ( eds ) , 1979 : 36 ) Dreyfus and Rabinow note : " The practitioner of interpretive analytics ...
... relation to something which must function as the infrastructure or economic or material determinant for it . ( Foucault , in Morris and Patton ( eds ) , 1979 : 36 ) Dreyfus and Rabinow note : " The practitioner of interpretive analytics ...
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... relation to the material s / he works on . Foucault constantly draws attention to the power of discourse in the structuring of his ideas . In an interview he states that he has not revised his answers to written questions ' not through ...
... relation to the material s / he works on . Foucault constantly draws attention to the power of discourse in the structuring of his ideas . In an interview he states that he has not revised his answers to written questions ' not through ...
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... relations which have struc- tured women's absence from the active production of most theory within a whole range of discourses over the last three hundred years . ( Weedon , 1987 : 13 ) However , it is not necessary to ignore male ...
... relations which have struc- tured women's absence from the active production of most theory within a whole range of discourses over the last three hundred years . ( Weedon , 1987 : 13 ) However , it is not necessary to ignore male ...
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... relations within which we have been formed ... [ we should ] search instead for possible indications of how we have participated actively in the formation of our own past experience . ( Haug ( ed . ) , 1987 : 35 ) Foucault rejects the ...
... relations within which we have been formed ... [ we should ] search instead for possible indications of how we have participated actively in the formation of our own past experience . ( Haug ( ed . ) , 1987 : 35 ) Foucault rejects the ...
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... relations of production . ( Foucault , in Morris and Patton ( eds ) , 1979 : 71 ) And Weedon comments on this view of ... relation to the people of the countries they describe in their books . It is the convergence and conflict of these ...
... relations of production . ( Foucault , in Morris and Patton ( eds ) , 1979 : 71 ) And Weedon comments on this view of ... relation to the people of the countries they describe in their books . It is the convergence and conflict of these ...
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Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism Sara Mills Vista previa limitada - 2003 |
Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism Sara Mills Vista previa limitada - 2003 |
Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism Sara Mills Sin vista previa disponible - 1991 |
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Página 10 - I would like to show with precise examples that in analysing discourses themselves, one sees the loosening of the embrace, apparently so tight, of words and things, and the emergence of a group of rules proper to discursive practice. These rules define not the dumb existence of a reality, nor the canonical use of a vocabulary, but the ordering of objects.