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Rak, Julie

 
9780228006275: False Summit: Gender in Mountaineering Nonfiction
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ISBN 10: 0228006279 ISBN 13: 9780228006275
Editorial: MQUP, 2021

Sinopsis

The race to climb Everest catapulted mountain climbing, with its accompanying images of conquest and sport, into the public sphere on a global scale. But as a metaphor for the pinnacle of human achievement, mountaineering remains the preserve of traditional white male heroism. False Summit unpacks gender politics in the expedition narratives and memoirs of mountaineers in the Himalayas and the Karakoram. Why are women still a minority in the world's highest places? Julie Rak proposes that the genre has itself reached a ""false summit"" - a peak that proves not to be the pinnacle - and that mountaineering is not ready to welcome other ways of climbing or other kinds of climbers. For more than two centuries mountaineering, as an activity and as an ideal, has helped shape how the self is understood within the context of conquest, adventure, and proximity to risk. As climbing shows signs of becoming more diverse, Rak asks why change is so hard to achieve and why gender bias and other inequities exist in climbing at all. Exploring classic and lesser-known expedition accounts from Everest, K2, and Annapurna, False Summit helps us understand why mountaineering remains one of the most important ways to articulate gender identities and politics.

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Julie Rak is professor of English and film studies and holds the Henry Marshall Tory Chair at the University of Alberta.

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Editorial
MQUP
Año de publicación
2021
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0228006279
ISBN 13 
9780228006275
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Número de páginas
282
Contacto del fabricante
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