Black Lambs and Grey Falcons

Women Travelling in the Balkans

John B. Allcock, Antonia Young (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

324 Seiten

2000 | 2nd edition
Berghahn Books, Incorporated (Verlag)
978-1-57181-744-0 (ISBN)

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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.

John B. Allcock is head of the Research Unit in South East European Studies and is based in the Interdisciplinary Human Studies department at the University of Bradford.

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

Zusatzinfo	18 Plates, unspecified
Verlagsort	Herndon
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	376 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte
	Reisen ► Reiseführer ► Europa
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-57181-744-1 / 1571817441
ISBN-13	978-1-57181-744-0 / 9781571817440
Zustand	Neuware