Mountaineering women :
Mountaineering women : stories by early climbers /
edited, with an introduction, by David Mazel.
- 1st ed.
- College Station : Texas A & M University Press, �1994.
- 1 online resource (xii, 184 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-184).
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"Women have known the challenges and triumphs of mountaineering for nearly two centuries, and for nearly as long they have been writing about their accomplishments, creating a fascinating, often thrilling literature of adventure and daring. As with other aspects of women's history, however, the literature of mountaineering women has been scattered and largely forgotten. Sixteen of their stories - sometimes published under the name of a male relative, sometimes under anonymous bylines such as "a Lady"--Are here recovered and collected for the first time." "The women who speak to us in this book climbed on the world's highest peaks and most difficult rock faces, from the English Lake District to the Alps to the Andes and Himalaya. Some were politically motivated, like the American Annie Smith Peck, who considered her spectacular ascents a strategy for advancing the liberation of her sex. Others were staunchly conservative about all matters save their personal right to climb mountains, a right that could rarely be taken for granted and sometimes proved as difficult to win as the summit itself." "These stories are as much about people as about mountains. They tell of conflict and cooperation, of women struggling not only to reach a summit but also to negotiate their freedom in a society that preferred they simply stay at home. The editor's introduction provides an overview of the two hundred-year history of women's climbing and places it in the context of that struggle." "Mountaineering Women shows how highly skilled, courageous, and determined women have revised and transformed a traditionally masculine activity, while at the same time transforming themselves - each arriving, as Mary Crawford put it, "at last upon the summit to gaze out upon a new world. Surely not the same old earth she has seen all her life? Yes - but looked at from on top - a point of view which now makes upon her mind its indelible impression."" --Book Jacket.
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HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.
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English.
058512115X 9780585121154
Women mountaineers--Case studies.
Women mountaineers--History.
Femmes alpinistes--Cas, �Etudes de.
Femmes alpinistes--Histoire.
SPORTS & RECREATION--Mountaineering.
Women mountaineers.
Bergsteigerin
Geschichte
Biografie
Recreation & Sports.
Social Sciences.
Electronic books.
Case studies.
History.
Electronic books.
GV199 / .M68 1994eb
796.5/22/0922 B
Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-184).
Use copy
"Women have known the challenges and triumphs of mountaineering for nearly two centuries, and for nearly as long they have been writing about their accomplishments, creating a fascinating, often thrilling literature of adventure and daring. As with other aspects of women's history, however, the literature of mountaineering women has been scattered and largely forgotten. Sixteen of their stories - sometimes published under the name of a male relative, sometimes under anonymous bylines such as "a Lady"--Are here recovered and collected for the first time." "The women who speak to us in this book climbed on the world's highest peaks and most difficult rock faces, from the English Lake District to the Alps to the Andes and Himalaya. Some were politically motivated, like the American Annie Smith Peck, who considered her spectacular ascents a strategy for advancing the liberation of her sex. Others were staunchly conservative about all matters save their personal right to climb mountains, a right that could rarely be taken for granted and sometimes proved as difficult to win as the summit itself." "These stories are as much about people as about mountains. They tell of conflict and cooperation, of women struggling not only to reach a summit but also to negotiate their freedom in a society that preferred they simply stay at home. The editor's introduction provides an overview of the two hundred-year history of women's climbing and places it in the context of that struggle." "Mountaineering Women shows how highly skilled, courageous, and determined women have revised and transformed a traditionally masculine activity, while at the same time transforming themselves - each arriving, as Mary Crawford put it, "at last upon the summit to gaze out upon a new world. Surely not the same old earth she has seen all her life? Yes - but looked at from on top - a point of view which now makes upon her mind its indelible impression."" --Book Jacket.
Electronic reproduction.
[S.l.] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
English.
058512115X 9780585121154
Women mountaineers--Case studies.
Women mountaineers--History.
Femmes alpinistes--Cas, �Etudes de.
Femmes alpinistes--Histoire.
SPORTS & RECREATION--Mountaineering.
Women mountaineers.
Bergsteigerin
Geschichte
Biografie
Recreation & Sports.
Social Sciences.
Electronic books.
Case studies.
History.
Electronic books.
GV199 / .M68 1994eb
796.5/22/0922 B