Gender On Ice: American Ideologies of Polar Expeditions
Gender On Ice: American Ideologies of Polar Expeditions
by Lisa Bloom
University of Minnesota Press, 1993 Paper: 978-0-8166-2093-7 | Cloth: 978-0-8166-2091-3 Library of Congress Classification G620.B54 1993 Dewey Decimal Classification 910.91632
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Bloom focuses on the conquest of the North Pole as she reveals how popular print and visual media defined and shaped American national ideologies from the early twentieth century to the present.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Lisa Bloom is currently a Mellon postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University and has taught art history at the University of California. She has written and lectured on the intersections between gender, technology, travel, colonialism, and visual culture.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Passion for Blankness: U.S. and British Polar Discourse
1.
Nationalism on Ice: Technology and Masculinity at the North Pole
2.
National Geographic Society and Magazine: Technologies of Nationalism, Race, and Gender
3.
White Fade-out? Heroism and the National Geographic in the Age of Multiculturalism
4.
Science and Writing: Two Adventures of Male Embodiment