In search of 'liberty
Politics and women's rights in the travel narratives of Flora Tristan and Suzanne Voilquin
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4347674 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan Foley, Susan K Foley (Victoria University of Wellington, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 211-231 |
| Publication date | 2004-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women s History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-2025 • E-ISSN: 1747-583X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09612020400200769 |
| OpenAlex | W4250665373 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 5 |
The travel writings of Flora Tristan and Suzanne Voilquin are relatively unusual for their time in that their authors were feminists and socialists, and devoted particular attention to political questions in the societies they visited. But having criticised France's failure to extend rights to women, they nevertheless emphasised French cultural and political superiority, and recommended its ‘Enlightened’ model of womanhood to other societies. The collision of their discourses about women and ‘Liberty’ illustrates, firstly, the dilemmas faced by feminists who tried to situate the ‘rights of women’ within the project of enlightened modernity that had produced the ‘rights of man’. Secondly, these travel narratives confirm that even feminists and socialists proved unable to escape an ‘Orientalist’ perspective in observing foreign societies. Nevertheless, while Europe provided the criteria for assessing the ‘Other’ world, that ‘Other’ world simultaneously served as a counter-model by which European shortcomings could be exposed
Art · Biology · Feminism · Literature · Modernity · Narrative · Orientalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Byzantine Studies and History · European Political History Analysis · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Religious studies · Genetics
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |