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False Summit

- Gender in Mountaineering Nonfiction
Af: Julie Rak Engelsk Paperback

False Summit

- Gender in Mountaineering Nonfiction
Af: Julie Rak Engelsk Paperback
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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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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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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 272
ISBN-13: 9780228006275
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0228006279
Kategori: Kønsstudier: kvinder og piger
Udg. Dato: 14 apr 2021
Længde: 22mm
Bredde: 229mm
Højde: 152mm
Forlag: McGill-Queen's University Press
Oplagsdato: 14 apr 2021
Forfatter(e): Julie Rak
Forfatter(e) Julie Rak

Kategori Kønsstudier: kvinder og piger

ISBN-13 9780228006275

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 272

Udgave

Længde 22mm

Bredde 229mm

Højde 152mm

Udg. Dato 14 apr 2021

Oplagsdato 14 apr 2021

Forlag McGill-Queen's University Press

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