Women, travel and identity : journeys by rail and sea, 1870-1940 /
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 l...
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| Language: | English |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2013.
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| Series: | Gender in history.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Series page; Title page; Copyright information; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The big luggage went a fortnight ago: making the journey abroad; 2 Fashion plate heroines: imagining the female journeyer; 3 No nice girl swears: advice, etiquette and expectation; 4 Ordering the berth: the spaces of journeying; 5 Busy practising games: scrutiny and sociability; 6 Full of wickedness: romantic opportunity and sexual hazard?; 7 Where her story begins: fashioning a journeyer identity; Conclusion
- Appendix: Women journeyersBibliography; Index