At Home in the Cold : Domestic Culture in Arctic Exploration, 18901940

Name: At Home in the Cold : Domestic Culture in Arctic Exploration, 18901940
Brand: McGill-Queen's University Press

McGill-Queen's University Press

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the idea of home came into focus as a place of warmth and comfort, associated with interior spaces and feminine touches. In the same period, writing about the Arctic as a frigid and inhospitable landscape proliferated. American readers were fascinated by stories of Arctic exploration and supposedly heroic feats of survival by rugged white men. Moving across these opposing pictures were a handful of white and northern Indigenous women who travelled between the eastern Arctic and America from 1890 to 1940 in connection with exploratory expeditions. Their journeys and recollections challenged prevailing ideas about home, the North, and the rightful place of women.\nAt Home in the Cold brings to light the histories of five women involved\n\nAt Home in the Cold\nDomestic Culture in Arctic Exploration, 1890\u20131940\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked servic;