Black Lambs and Grey Falcons

Women Travelling in the Balkans
Herausgeber: Allcock, John B.; Young, Antonia

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

During the 19th century the Balkan countries became the subject of a rather romantic fascination for the public at large. This vision of the area has been created in large measure by the writing of women travelers such as those represented in this volume. The achievements of these women are quite remarkable: in many cases their travels were adventurous, and even dangerous, reaching into parts of the countryside which were remote and hardly known to outsiders. Not only as travelers but also in the fields of medical and military service, scholarship and education, journalism and literature, did these women contribute in very significant ways to the expansion of women's horizons and to the attempt to gain greater freedom for women in society in general.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• 2. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9781571817440
• ISBN-10: 1571817441
• Artikelnr.: 23563951

Autorenporträt

Antonia Young is a member of the Department for Sociology and Anthropology at Colgate University, New York

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Preface to Second Edition Acknowledgements
Editorial Introduction: Black Lambs and Grey Falcons: Outward and Inward
Frontiers John B. Allcock and Antonia Young
Chapter 1. Two Victorian Ladies and Bosnian Realities, 1861-1875: G.M.
MacKenzie and A.P. Irby Omer Hadziselimović
Chapter 2. Edith Durham, Traveller and Publicist John Hodgson
Chapter 3. Edith Durham as a Collector June Hill Chapter 4. Emily Balch:
Balkan Traveller, Peace Worker and Nobel Laureate Elinor M.
Despalatović and Joel M. Halpern
Chapter 5. The Work of British Medical Women in Serbia during and after the
First World War Monica Krippner
Chapter 6. Captain Flora Sandes: A Case Study in the Social Construction of
Gender in a Serbian Context Julie Wheelwright
Chapter 7. Rose Wilder Lane: 1886-1968 Antonia Young
Chapter 8. Rebecca West, Gerda and the Sense of Process Felicity Rosslyn
Chapter 9. Margaret Masson Hasluck Marc Clark
Chapter 10. Louisa Rayner: An Englishwoman's Experiences in Wartime
Yugoslavia Anne Kay
Chapter 11. Mercia MacDermott: A Woman of the Frontier Dianne Waller
Chapter 12. An Anthropologist in the Village Barbara Kerewsky-Halpern
Chapter 13. Bucks, Brides and Useless Baggage: Women's Quest for a Role in
their Balkan Travels Dea Birkett
Chapter 14. Constructing 'the Balkans' John B. Allcock
Chapter 15. Women Travellers in the Balkans: A Bibliographical Guide
Jennifer Finder
Notes on Contributors Index