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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 IllustrationsPreface to SecondEdition AcknowledgementsEditorial Introduction: Black Lambs and Grey Falcons: Outward and Inward FrontiersJohn B. Allcock and Antonia YoungChapter 1. Two Victorian Ladies and Bosnian Realities, 1861-1875: G.M. MacKenzie and A.P. IrbyOmer HadziselimovićChapter 2. Edith Durham, Traveller and PublicistJohn HodgsonChapter 3. Edith Durham as a Collector June Hill Chapter 4. Emily Balch: Balkan Traveller, Peace Worker and Nobel LaureateElinor M. Despalatović and Joel M. HalpernChapter 5. The Work of British Medical Women in Serbia during and after the First World WarMonica KrippnerChapter 6. Captain Flora Sandes: A Case Study in the Social Construction of Gender in a Serbian ContextJulie WheelwrightChapter 7. Rose Wilder Lane: 1886-1968Antonia YoungChapter 8. Rebecca West, Gerda and the Sense of ProcessFelicity RosslynChapter 9. Margaret Masson HasluckMarc ClarkChapter 10. Louisa Rayner: An Englishwoman's Experiences in Wartime YugoslaviaAnne KayChapter 11. Mercia MacDermott: A Woman of the FrontierDianne WallerChapter 12. An Anthropologist in the VillageBarbara Kerewsky-HalpernChapter 13. Bucks, Brides and Useless Baggage: Women's Quest for a Role in their Balkan TravelsDea BirkettChapter 14. Constructing 'the Balkans'John B. AllcockChapter 15. Women Travellers in the Balkans: A Bibliographical GuideJennifer FinderNotes on ContributorsIndex
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