Feminine Poles : Josephine Diebitsch-Peary's and Jennie Darlington's polar narratives
From the Eurocentric or Anglo-American point of view, the Arctic and the Antarctic have often been perceived and presented as the last masculine preserves on earth. Outside constructions of the masculine Arctic obviously also disregard the circumstance that people have lived in the region for very l...
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ftumeauniv:oai:DiVA.org:umu-25482 2023-10-09T21:46:08+02:00 Feminine Poles : Josephine Diebitsch-Peary's and Jennie Darlington's polar narratives Hansson, Heidi 2009 application/pdf http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-25482 eng eng Institutionen för språkstudier Umeå : Umeå University and the Royal Skyttean Society Northern Studies Monographs, 2000-0405 1 Cold matters : cultural perceptions of snow, ice and cold, p. 105--123 orcid:0000-0003-4960-3251 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-25482 urn:isbn:978-91-88466-70-9 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Josephine Diebitsch-Peary Jennie Darlington gender ideology Arctic Antarctic Robert E. Peary Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition feminisation General Literature Studies Litteraturvetenskap Chapter in book info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart text 2009 ftumeauniv 2023-09-22T13:49:45Z From the Eurocentric or Anglo-American point of view, the Arctic and the Antarctic have often been perceived and presented as the last masculine preserves on earth. Outside constructions of the masculine Arctic obviously also disregard the circumstance that people have lived in the region for very long, but there are also non-indigenous women who have spent time or lived in both areas, to begin with usually as companions to their husbands, but in later years as researchers in their own right. Two early narratives about life in the far North and the far South, respectively, are Josephine Diebitsch-Peary’s My Arctic Journal: A Year Among Ice-Fields and Eskimos (1893) and Jennie Darlington’s My Antarctic Honeymoon: A Year at the Bottom of the World (1956). Both women describe life in the polar areas in ways compatible with the gender ideologies of their time. In many respects, however, Diebitsch-Peary’s account presents more radical suggestions for how women might live in the masculine polar environment than Darlington whose conclusion is that the Antarctic should remain a men-only continent. Book Part Antarc* Antarctic Arctic eskimo* Umeå University: Publications (DiVA) American Point ENVELOPE(-55.781,-55.781,53.400,53.400) Antarctic Arctic Darlington ENVELOPE(-60.750,-60.750,-72.000,-72.000) Josephine ENVELOPE(-152.800,-152.800,-77.550,-77.550) Peary ENVELOPE(-63.867,-63.867,-65.250,-65.250) The Antarctic |
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From the Eurocentric or Anglo-American point of view, the Arctic and the Antarctic have often been perceived and presented as the last masculine preserves on earth. Outside constructions of the masculine Arctic obviously also disregard the circumstance that people have lived in the region for very long, but there are also non-indigenous women who have spent time or lived in both areas, to begin with usually as companions to their husbands, but in later years as researchers in their own right. Two early narratives about life in the far North and the far South, respectively, are Josephine Diebitsch-Peary’s My Arctic Journal: A Year Among Ice-Fields and Eskimos (1893) and Jennie Darlington’s My Antarctic Honeymoon: A Year at the Bottom of the World (1956). Both women describe life in the polar areas in ways compatible with the gender ideologies of their time. In many respects, however, Diebitsch-Peary’s account presents more radical suggestions for how women might live in the masculine polar environment than Darlington whose conclusion is that the Antarctic should remain a men-only continent. |
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