At Home Afloat

Women on the Waters of the Pacific Northwest

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

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Considering accounts written by Northwest Coast marine tourists between 1861 and 1990, Nancy Pagh examines the ways that gender influences the roles women play at sea, the spaces they occupy on boats, and the language they use to describe their experiences, their natural surroundings, and their contact with Indigenous peoples. Nancy Paugh, an accomplished marine tourist and scholar, offers an engaging text that makes fresh and relevant links between diverse areas of inquiry including Western Canadian Western Canadian and American history, feminist geography, post-colonial theory, and women and environments. She seamlessly integrates her own personal narrative into the text and beautifully evokes the complexity and singular qualities of Northwest Coast geography and ecology.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2001-03-30
Mått152 x 228 x 13 mm
Vikt300 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor198
FörlagUniversity of Calgary Press
ISBN9781552380284

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Nancy Pagh was born in Anacortes, Washington, and currently teaches at Western Washington University. She grew up travelling the San Juan Islands and the Canadian Gulf Islands by boat, and, with this book, she turns a critical eye to the writings of other travellers. Dr. Pagh earned degrees in creative writing and literature from the University of New Hampshire and a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of British Columbia.

Illustrations Acknowledgements Map Chapter One Northwest Coast Marine Tourism: A Contextual History Gender and Regional Identity Cruising and Steam Beginnings Steam Tourism The Gas Engine and Recreational Boating Homemaking Tourists Chapter Two Space for the Mate: Superstition, Ritual, and a Womanâs Place Space and Gender Politics Floating Worlds Women and Cruising Literature Women and Boating on the Northwest Coast Three Pleasure Craft Accounts Three Work Boat Accounts Chapter Three Imaginary Indians: Feminine Discourse and Colonialism Afloat Theorizing Colonial Womenâs Travel Writing Contacts Counterfeit Ladies The Victorian Cult of the Home At Home in the Company of Strangers A Sea Change Chapter Four "Getting Our Dresses Wet." Women, Girls and the Natural Environment Home/Nature/Women Indescribable Landscapes Collectable Nature "An Atavistic Female Instinct" Daughters of the Coast Bibliography Index