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Black Lambs and Grey Falcons
Women Travelling in the Balkans
Edited by John B. Allcock and Antonia Young
324 pages, 18 photos, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-57181-744-0 $34.95/£27.95 / Pb / Published (November 2000)
Revised and Updated with a New Introduction
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.
John B. Allcock is head of the Research Unit in South East European Studies and is based in the Interdisciplinary Human Studies department at the University of Bradford.
Antonia Young is a member of the Department for Sociology and Anthropology at Colgate University, New York
Subject: Travel and TourismGender Studies and Sexuality
Area: Central/Eastern Europe
Contents
Of Related Interest
Women of Prague
Ethnic Diversity and Social Change from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
