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Article Excerpt
FRONTIERS OF FEMININITY: A New Historical Geography of the Nineteenth-Century American West. By Karen M. Morin. xii and 278 pp.; ills., bibliog., index. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2008. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 0815631677.
Karen Morin's collection of her previously published essays is both "a statement on historical geography" (p. 12) and an "attempt to understand how women's gender identities were produced 'in place' in nineteenth-century North America" (p. 2) through a critical examination of the writings of women living in or traveling through North America and Mexico during that time period. Her primary purpose in this volume is to "explore how a set of discourses, about Victorian gender relations and imperial geographies (both American and British), combine to influence these women's writings as they moved through touristic and other spaces in North America" (p. 2). Morin's analytical framework for the book is clear. "All of the chapters implicitly or explicitly assert a relationship between gendered subjectivity, colonial and imperial relations, and gendered knowledge itself" (p. 9).
Having read many of the essays previously, I wondered how well Morin would be able to...
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