Full Description
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.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface to Second
Edition Acknowledgements
Editorial Introduction: Black Lambs and Grey Falcons: Outward and Inward Frontiers
John B. Allcock and Antonia Young
Chapter 1. Two Victorian Ladies and Bosnian Realities, 1861-1875: G.M. MacKenzie and A.P. Irby
Omer Hadziselimović
Chapter 2. Edith Durham, Traveller and Publicist
John Hodgson
Chapter 3. Edith Durham as a Collector June Hill Chapter 4. Emily Balch: Balkan Traveller, Peace Worker and Nobel Laureate
Elinor M. Despalatović and Joel M. Halpern
Chapter 5. The Work of British Medical Women in Serbia during and after the First World War
Monica Krippner
Chapter 6. Captain Flora Sandes: A Case Study in the Social Construction of Gender in a Serbian Context
Julie Wheelwright
Chapter 7. Rose Wilder Lane: 1886-1968
Antonia Young
Chapter 8. Rebecca West, Gerda and the Sense of Process
Felicity Rosslyn
Chapter 9. Margaret Masson Hasluck
Marc Clark
Chapter 10. Louisa Rayner: An Englishwoman's Experiences in Wartime Yugoslavia
Anne Kay
Chapter 11. Mercia MacDermott: A Woman of the Frontier
Dianne Waller
Chapter 12. An Anthropologist in the Village
Barbara Kerewsky-Halpern
Chapter 13. Bucks, Brides and Useless Baggage: Women's Quest for a Role in their Balkan Travels
Dea Birkett
Chapter 14. Constructing 'the Balkans'
John B. Allcock
Chapter 15. Women Travellers in the Balkans: A Bibliographical Guide
Jennifer Finder
Notes on Contributors
Index
